defraggler takes time - does NOTHING!

Defraggler
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have a Maxtor 6Yo6oLo with 2 partitions - C (23462MB) NTFS and D (35173MB) with FAT32 (8% free space)

C is 54% fragmented with 11% free space - so Defraggler works for more then an hour and when I'm back - same 54%!!! also % dropped while working bat then is back to 54%

D - same (42% defragmented after 8 hours)

Any suggestions?

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VictorR, You may not like my recommendation but here goes: Your computer is really working extra hard and immediately I see a major obstacle; your free space is only 15% which is just not sufficient. I would recommend either deleting or moving files to a dedicated archive drive? you really need to reduce the content 50% or more. Your computer will be very happy and will show its gratitude. (Once that?s accomplished and as an option; if you have an active paging file you may want to move that to another drive.) Good Luck!

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VictorR, You may not like my recommendation but here goes: Your computer is really working extra hard and immediately I see a major obstacle; your free space is only 15% which is just not sufficient. I would recommend either deleting or moving files to a dedicated archive drive? you really need to reduce the content 50% or more. Your computer will be very happy and will show its gratitude. (Once that?s accomplished and as an option; if you have an active paging file you may want to move that to another drive.) Good Luck!

Well, my free space is 67% and I have the same problem. The program looks like it's doing something with the squares changing colors, but when it's finished, it shows the same amount fragmented. Now what?

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Are the fragmented files pagefile.sys, hiberfile.sys, C:\System Volume Information\ files, files beginning with an $, files from your antivirus, ...?

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C:\System, C:\Users , but there are many others

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Just press analyse, then go to the "file list" tab, slect them all and press "defrag checked"

This way it only defrags the fragmented files, it goes a lot faster and it works :)

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have a Maxtor 6Yo6oLo with 2 partitions - C (23462MB) NTFS and D (35173MB) with FAT32 (8% free space)

C is 54% fragmented with 11% free space - so Defraggler works for more then an hour and when I'm back - same 54%!!! also % dropped while working bat then is back to 54%

D - same (42% defragmented after 8 hours)

Any suggestions?

I have a similar problem with Vista 64 bit and have plently of freespace, 65%. I've run defraggler several times today and the fragementation went from 22% to 35%. I've put defraggler several XP machines in the last few months with varying levels of free space and it runs great.

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Try disabling System Restore and then enable it. This will clear all your System Restore points and then create a new, theoretically non-fragmented one.