Re: can't defragment all files on dirve

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Disk fragmentation is NOT the cause of your printing problem, because, among other reasons, your disk is in good shape, at least with regard to fragmentation. Diskeeper doesn't try to achieve perfection; for that you need the appropriately named PerfectDisk by Raxco. Not that the Raxco product is that much better; it's a question of two different philosophies of defragmentation.

Solving your printing problem requires information about your printer, not your hard disk.

Stephen R. Diamond

On Mon, 02 May 2005 18:01:03 -0700, d6s9c <d6s9c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I usually run scan disk & disk defragmenter every weekend & all has been for
while except for a few weeks ago. My printer doesn't work anymore (won't
even print a test page), so I was reading about how a fragmented drive
affects the printing performance if it's running slow. So after running disk
defragmenter for a few minutes the program stops & says that some of the
files can't be defragmented on the drive.
A friend of mine sent me disk keeper 9.0 to use and it fixed everything
but 3 files that I can't defragment or whatever you wanna call it. I still
can't even print a test page (the printer use to turn on by itself when you
went to print something). Now I have to physically press the "ON" button &
the printer starts to feed a piece of paper in (maybe about a inch), but
quickly stops & the paper feeder lets go of the piece & the paper is returned
back to the original starting position inn the paper tray.
After running the defrag report it says the following:

Volume Hdisk1 (C:)
    Volume size                                = 37.27 GB
    Cluster size                               = 512 bytes
    Used space                                 = 14.22 GB
    Free space                                 = 23.05 GB
    Percent free space                         = 61 %

Volume fragmentation
    Total fragmentation                        = 9 %
    File fragmentation                         = 18 %
    Free space fragmentation                   = 0 %

File fragmentation
    Total files                                = 95,805
    Average file size                          = 178 KB
    Total fragmented files                     = 3
    Total excess fragments                     = 16
    Average fragments per file                 = 1.00

Pagefile fragmentation
    Pagefile size                              = 575 MB
    Total fragments                            = 2

Folder fragmentation
    Total folders                              = 4,625
    Fragmented folders                         = 1
    Excess folder fragments                    = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
    Total MFT size                             = 115 MB
    MFT record count                           = 105,272
    Percent MFT in use                         = 89 %
    Total MFT fragments                        = 3

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Fragments       File Size       Files that cannot be defragmented
3               1.68 GB         \Documents and
Settings\administrator\Application Data\ACD Systems\ImageDB\ImageDB.ddf

I have no idea what all this really means, but I was using ACDSee power pac
7.0 as a image viewer, but after not being able to print anything & getting
the above message in the report, I completely uninstalled ACDsee & deleted
the program from the registry (I think).

If anyone has any solutions to my not being able to print anything (it’s a
HP DeskJet 820cxi) or defragging the rest of the files the above report says,
would be GREATLY appreciate!
Thanks.




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