Re: Hard drive does not stay defragged!

Rain wrote:
I have Norton System Works with System Doctor monitoring the fragmentation of my hard drive. For months now, I get a warning every two or three days that the drive is too fragmented. I run the Windows Defrag and then System Doctor says it is back to 100%, but two days later I get a warning again. It's not just the warning that concerns me because I can see that the system is slowing down considerably.

It is not a virus or spyware or adware issue. I run NAV, Ad-Aware and Spy Sweeper all the time. Win Doctor keeps telling me that C:\Windows\system32\icardagt.exe cannot access a missing file "msvcp80.dll." I downloaded this file from some site recommended by an MVP here but my computer can't seem to find it.

My HD is a year old, 40 GB, partitoned into three drives. The C drive is about 20 GB with 4.5 GB free space. I have 512 MB RAM. I cannot defrag the E drive at all and I get a message telling me that there isn't enough free space to perform the defrag. It has 8 GB with 1 GB free space. The D drive has 9 GB, all free space.

By the way, Norton System Works comes with a defrag program called Speed Disk. All of a sudden it won't work and Norton's explanation is that my software is out of date (it's 2003) and I need to buy 2006! WHAT??!

So... is the amount of free space the problem? Are there other reasons why a HD would not stay defragmented? Is it a good idea to buy a defrag program? If free space is the problem, I do not know how to rearrange the partiton of the HD and would need detailed instructions. I need to do it myself as I have paid my friendly tech guy too much money and have to learn to be self-sufficient.

Thanks for your time and help,

Rain

Use the search function to find the location of the dll file and move it to the system32 folder. For all of your drives run chkdsk C: /f to verify the drive properties (replace c: with d:, e:, etc.). Then start the cleaning process for malware.

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