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Title: hard drive fragmentation...
Post by: Tall Adam on December 23, 2004, 03:24:10 PM

so my drive in my lappy is now 11% fragmented that will not defrag when i run one. what can be done about this? anything or is that just 11% of the drive thats that much closer to dying...

Title: Re: hard drive fragmentation...
Post by: Chuck on December 23, 2004, 03:28:15 PM

No, probably a good part of that part that can't be defraged is large files, liike audio files.
Fragmenation has nothing to do with the physical health of your hard drive.

Title: Re: hard drive fragmentation...
Post by: sexymexi on December 23, 2004, 03:50:09 PM

also if you are using more than like 60% of the drive's space at least on XP it wouldn't let me defrag cause there wasn't enough space..

Title: Re: hard drive fragmentation...
Post by: JackoRoses on December 23, 2004, 05:27:17 PM

I recommend installing a third party defrag utility.
I use and like Disk keeper.
It defragments very well and will defrag a drive that is about 85% full.
It will also do a whole lot more. Defrag the drive before windows boots etc.
Good luck

Title: Re: hard drive fragmentation...
Post by: Jeff F on December 24, 2004, 11:04:14 AM

I know that in Win2k they want 15 or 16% freed, so you can also try moving the data to another drive or burn it to DVD or whatever, if you have that option.  Win2k and XP may be rather similiar here.

Title: Re: hard drive fragmentation...
Post by: Tall Adam on December 24, 2004, 01:46:29 PM

in XP is 15% because my external is now full up to 4% free...i need a new external  ::)