Cant defrag my laptop in win xp

Benzino · 22-01-2007 12:39pm #1

Hey,

I tried to defrag my laptop but came up with an error "defragmentation of ... has been aborted due to inconsistencies that were detected in the filesystem". I ran CHKDSK three times and it completed successfully, but i still cant defrag it.

any advice?

thanks

Ruu_Old · 22-01-2007 4:18pm

How much diskspace have you free?

Benzino · 22-01-2007 5:24pm

19%/17.75gb

MarkR · 22-01-2007 5:35pm

You could try booting into safe mode (tap F8 while booting) and running it from there. A background process may be causing a problem like a antivirus package.

zilog_jones · 22-01-2007 7:13pm

try in the command prompt:

chkdsk c: /f /v /r /x
(change drive letter to whatever if not c)
It may ask that it needs to restart to do this. This will do the most complete disk check. Afterwards you can look in the Event Viewer (Administrative Tools) to see if it did anything.

Capt'n Midnight · 22-01-2007 11:24pm

yeah reckon it's a background process too

sysinternals - now on microsofts site
try pagedfrg to tidy up the swap file and registry
contig will defragment files one at a time too

Benzino · 24-01-2007 5:38pm

thanks for all the help. I'll try the suggested methods above as soon as i can and inform you of the outcome.

Thanks very much again for your help

Capt'n Midnight · 24-01-2007 9:18pm

other options

backup and wipe drive and restore

if that too sane for you - ntfsresize on a linux bootable CD can shrink the partition down - the latest version will defrag ntfs partitions and then expand it back again - files won't be contigiuous but the free space will then be at the end of the drive

Cant defrag my laptop in win xp

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