Re: Too many fragments remain after defrag and defrag takes too long

Joyce

The normal way to remove System Restore points (in the System Volume
Information folder ) is Disk CleanUp. To increase your free space on your
drive select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore points? Restore points can be quite large.

To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure that
you can see all files. Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View,
Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and
folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is
unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should
also make certain that the box before "Hide extensions for known file types"
is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is selected
and then select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total
Size, and Free Space.

You still will not see the System Volume Information folder.
How to Gain Access to the System Volume Information Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309531

How much RAM memory?Try Ctrl+Alt+Delete to select Task
Manager and click the Performance Tab. What is the Total,
the Commit Charge and the Peak?

What is your CPU processor speed? Right click on your My
Computer icon on your Desktop and select Properties to get
this information and the amount of RAM memory.

How large is your hard disk and how much free disk space? In
Windows Explorer right click on your C drive and select
Properties. Is the hard disk formatted as fat32 or NTFS?

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England

Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Joyce" <Joyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:660D92E9-9DA2-47A2-B1B5-8309F7AC8020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Question 1: I cannot seem to get rid of all the fragments on my hard
drive.
They appear to reside in something called System Volume Information and
have
"restore information" in the string. Is there a way to clean these up?

Question 2: I have about 72% free space on my PC and defragmenting the C
drive takes two to three hours each time. Is there a way to speed this
up
at all?


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Page File Defragmentation
    ... Fat 16 under Dos/Win9x is start writing at beginning of disk using whatever free space you find. ... > My initial reaction was to take your words "Again your restore points are ... >>>System restore folders seem to break into large numbers of fragments! ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Cannot Defrag file
    ... The normal way to remove System Restore points (in the System Volume ... Size, and Free Space. ... You still will not see the System Volume Information folder. ... 1,061 fragments ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
  • Re: Page File Defragmentation
    ... tell how large bits of free space are and 500 kb is quite small in global ... fragments would seem more likely if available space was the only governing ... Fat 16 under Dos/Win9x is start writing at beginning of disk using whatever ... > My initial reaction was to take your words "Again your restore points are ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Page File Defragmentation
    ... >time I have been wrongly taking these to be the restore point. ... >% of the free space of 1.35 gb. ... >play could be that the system writes data to disk from the beginning of the ... >fragmentation of restore points will always be germane. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Winupdate consumed most of my free space
    ... To investigate how you are using hard disk space you need to make sure ... before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space. ... Which drives are shown as Monitored and which as Turned Off? ... Restore and remove all but the latest restore points? ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain)
Loading