Taking forever to defrag dive C

[airedale]

I'm running WinXP Home and can't seem to defrag Drive C. I've been able to defrag Drives D (40 gig) & E 160 gig with 12 gig free space). Drive C is 250 gig hard drive with 53 gigs free space. It shows it have 31% fragmentation and 918 fragmented files. After 12+ hours it still shows 0% defraged. There has been some minor changes to the amount of free space(both minor increases and decreases). I have noticed that there has been some changes in the files being defraged. I am having it move the large files also. Is it normal to take this much time the first time you use this defragger?

[airedale]

It's been over 24 hours with it running and there has been no change. I aborted the defragging and re-ran analyze fragmentation rate is the same. When I was watching the drive map yesterday none of the squares turned green, or yellow. Also in spite of the roughly 25% free space only 1 of the blocks is white. I notice that I didn't specify that it's a NTFS drive like the others which is was able to defrag.

[kroozer]

I am puzzled by Defraggler showing only one white cell while you claim to have 25% free. I suggest:

 

1. Install Tree Size Free or Winderstat and see if they agree with your 25% free space indication.

 

2. Move some of your files onto other disk(s) and see if the increase in free space helps any.

 

3. Do a clean reinstall of Defraggler (uninstall your current copy first).