Disk Defragmenter Stalls at 0% consolidated...

Originally Posted by reddice

I don't even use Notepad because it is so limited. I use Notepad2 and have it set to open instead of Notepad.

What does this have to do with the thread?

If you need an answer to a question, plese start a new thread.

Originally Posted by reddice

I don't even use Notepad because it is so limited. I use Notepad2 and have it set to open instead of Notepad.

That would be a great thing for you to tell us.. in another thread
(not trying to sound rude!_

Cheers!

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Originally Posted by pweegar

Yes, win7 defrag works, if slowly. I also like and use auslogics defrag program. It's FREE! You might also want to run Chkdsk on each drive. If Chkdsk finds any problems it will let you know youj need to re-run it with the /f option. If Chkdsk finds problems on your boot partition, you will need to reboot.

How badly is your drive fragmented???? I've seen MS SQL Servers become 50+ percent fragmented! However, defragmentting some like that doesn't work well. 18GB database and a 15 GB trans log don't get defragged very easily (Yes, I know it can be done thru SQL itself, but the file still remains fragmented).

I did get the W7 Defragger to at least perform an analysis last week after reading your response, but it always comes back with 0% defragged. Today I looked again first with W7, and then went over to XP and did an analysis. THEY CERTAINLY DON'T PROVIDE RESULTS THAT AGREE. I have attached screen shots - Drives F, G, and L were all reported under XP as "Do NOT need defrag" (but do have some defragmentation as can be seen by the red bars), BUT the H drive is reported by XP as "Should defrag". The XP screen shots were taken immediately after leaving W7 boot. Nothing had been writen to drives F,G,H, or L in the interim.Attachment 5042Attachment 5041Attachment 5039
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I am sorry the attachments are all spread throughout the text. I added them after my post so don't know how to get them to show up at the end only.

Here are the attachments again, but cannot position the text at the end or beginning????

Would it make any difference if you ran disk defragment through command line?
How To Defragment Disks From Command Line in Windows 7 - HowToInWindows.com

It is impossible to compare results of XP and Windows 7 defraggers, as they work with different criteria. You might like to try and plough through this doc, Engineering Windows 7 : Disk Defragmentation ? Background and Engineering the Windows 7 Improvements
particularly note the
"(Quote) In Windows XP, any file that is split into more than one piece is considered fragmented. Not so in Windows Vista if the fragments are large enough – the defragmentation algorithm was changed (from Windows XP) to ignore pieces of a file that are larger than 64MB. "

Here is some lighter reading, which might answer your question on 0% fragmentation.

Improve performance by defragmenting your hard disk

This is why I stilll prefer a 3rd party defrag utility called Auslogics Disk Defrag