Posted on 03/28/2010 11:18:36 AM PDT by bgill
I have Windows XP Professional.
I have I haven't been able to defrag my C drive in months. C drive is a NTFS file system if that means anything. I can defrag the other drive but it's a FAT32.
It says it can't defrag because it's in another volume.
Months ago, I tried the online solution of going into C: prompt and typing in to schedule a scan disk to run at start up. I don't see that did anything.
Today, I tried to defrag it and got a pop up window that said, "Disk Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (C:). Please run Chkdsk /f."
Ok, so in C prompt the message is, "The type of the file system is NTSF. Cannot lock current drive. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts."
All I want is for the defrag to work and to see all the little blue areas lumped together nice and neatly, and for it to restart quicker.
run chkdsk /f and if that doesn’t work try booting to last known good configuration. If that doesn’t work try restoring
1. Restart your system
2. When the system first boots, type F8 to bring up the boot menu
3. Select the Safe Mode with Command Prompt option
4. Log-on as administrator if needed
5. At your command prompt type %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
6. Hit Enter
6. This will open the system restore wizard…
The joys of Windows...
It seems that you have gotten tons of good advice so that I don’t think you need an in-depth reply to your post. :-)
To All - I’m still alive but haven’t accomplished anything.
Cleaned disk - no biggie there.
Did the reboot with the “yes” checked to run Chkdsk f/ and it did it’s usual rebooting thing. BTW, it took 9 minutes to start which is normal for me.
Went to defrag and same old story - pop up window again says, “blah, blah, scheduled to run... please run chkdsk /f.”
Right now, I’m over seeing what can be stopped during Start Up. Thanks for that site.
To Age of Reason - You’re saying NTFS automatically defrags itself so it’s happily running somewhere in the background and I’ve been pulling my hair out for nothing? Or is it just royally messed up?
If it isn’t fragmented, you don’t have much on the disk or you don’t do much.
Bring up the defrag tool and run “Analyze”.
That’s a dry run that goes no matter what.
It will show a bar with mostly blue and red.
Blue is contiguous files, red is fragmented.
Green is immovable.
Directories and some system stuff will not move with defrag.
I'm sorry, you were saying something about Windows 7 I think......................
That’s the problem. It won’t bring up the bar.
***raspberry***
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I followed your directions to check out my drive, since i am able to partially defrag, but not completely- i get a message that some files are not defraggable.
A window opened that said disk check needed exclusive use of windows and asked me if I wanted to schedule it for the next time I re-start. I checked yes.
So after my next re-start it will run. When it is done will I be on desktop or in safe mode? Will I encounter any “surprises” from scheduling this task?
Thanks in advance.
I’m too scared to disable everything. I did disable quite a lot (no bugs, so that’s good) and it cut down the restart time by half or better so thanks. I’ve messed with it enough today and need a break. I’ll have to get my nerve up to disable everything.
If you happen to have Norton System Works, Disk Doctor does a good job of giving you a list of disk errors that can then be fixed manually if you can’t get chkdsk to work. In complicated situations, automatic fixing can do more damage, like truncating cross-linked files and such.
If you happen to have Norton System Works, Disk Doctor does a good job of giving you a list of disk errors that can then be fixed manually if you can’t get chkdsk to work. In complicated situations, automatic fixing can do more damage, like truncating cross-linked files and such.
So should i try to go back in there and try to uncheck “automatically fix errors”? I didnt check “try to recover bad sectors” but I did check the former choice.
Yes. That will run in diagnostic mode.
I don’t think chkdsk tells you as much as NDD but try that.
You might want to check what you typed.
Damn that Jim Thompson! Doh!!!
What I remember from when I researched buying my last PC four years ago, was that an NTFS formatted disc doesn't fragment much if at all--so there is no need to defrag it.
Two years after buying it, I decided to defrag it anyway, which I was able to do.
But the result of using defrag showed that the disc was pretty much not fragmented at all.
Research it on the net see what you come up with.
bfl
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