Re: Defrag problem
- From: bug*sly <bonnie1968@xxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)>
- Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 14:23:02 -0800
Can I post the defrag report on here. I have deleted, cleaned, removed, etc.
I had went from 1% to 11% now its @ 10%. HELP......Thanks.
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bug*sly
"Gerry Cornell" wrote:
Cal.
After I had posted I discovered your earlier posts.
You really do not need to worry about the amount of free space on your
C drive. You need to maintain a minimum of 15% but 20% is desirable.
That is easily achieved on a 15 gb drive. There are a number of ways
this can be done. I will mention three.
It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore
on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700
mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select
Properties, System Restore. Place the cursor on your C partition
select Settings and the slider and drag it to the left until it reads
700 mb and exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply
and OK and exit.
Another default setting which could be wasteful is that for temporary
internet files especially if you do not store offline copies on disk.
The default allocation is 3% of drive. Depending on your attitude to
offline copies you could reduce this to 1% or 2%. In Internet Explorer
select Tools, Internet Options, General, Temporary Internet Files,
Settings to make the change.
The default allocation for the Recycle Bin is 10 % of drive. On your
drive 5% should be sufficient. In Windows Explorer place the cursor on
your Recycle Bin, right click and select Properties, Global and move
the slider from 10% to 5%. Selecting global will make the change apply
also to your D partition, where the saving in disk space will be even
more significant.
On your system, System Restore should not be monitoring your D
drive.Right click on your My Computer icon , select Properties, System
Restore, place the cursor on D drive, click on Settings and click on
the box before Turn off System Restore on this drive. Click on OK,
Apply, OK and exit. Restart the computer for the change to take
effect.
Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also
select Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp,
More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System
Restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.
Now before you create any more files you may be able reduce the
pagefile fragmentation. Move the pagefile from C to D and set no
pagefile on C. Restart your computer and recreate your pagefile on C
and set no pagefile on D. Restart your computer and run Analyse in
Disk Defragmenter. I would expect the pagefile to be represented by
one single greenband.
How to move the paging file in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307886/en-us
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Cal M wrote:
That computer has 3 green bands. It is the same computer I was
posting about yesterday. I have not got Partition Magic, going to
repartition (reallocate?, whichever) for some of the spare space in
the D drive allocated to the C drive. Got plenty to spare. I
originally (on C) had a huge red band before repeated
defrag/chckdsk,
and the file printouts after defrag showed many files (couple megs
in
total and 4 or 5hundred files) with "content IE5" if I remember
correctly. Now they are gone, but I still wonder if the leftover
small red bars are some more of that old stuff.
And just for the record, I think Symantic is highpriced in the
beginning. Now they charge an additional 10.00 if you need to
re-download after 2 months. Plus their program, if I read the
license
correctly in a hurry, is only good for 1 computer rather than one
private owner. Got that off my chest, and I appreciate your help.
"Gerry Cornell" wrote:
Cal
That report is not indicating any real problems.
The Master File Table is normally in 2 or 3 fragments. The pagefile
is in 3 fragments. Normally the pagefile shows as green bands. How
many green bands do you have? Do you have a second partition or
drive with free space?
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Hope this helps.
Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Cal M wrote:
Xp pro, Dell I9300, 2gb mem, 2ghz processor speed. C drive/os
After repeated chkdsk and diskclean/defrag, I still can't get rid
of
2 short red bars of fragmentation. Here is the report:
Volume (C:)
Volume size = 14.65 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 8.80 GB
Free space = 5.84 GB
Percent free space = 39 %
Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 4 %
File fragmentation = 8 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %
File fragmentation
Total files = 43,344
Average file size = 243 KB
Total fragmented files = 1
Total excess fragments = 2
Average fragments per file = 1.00
Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 768 MB
Total fragments = 3
Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 3,290
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 119 MB
MFT record count = 46,720
Percent MFT in use = 38 %
Total MFT fragments = 3
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
None
How do I clean up those volume fragmentation figures? Other than
disliking the red bars (they bother me), computer runs ok. Also,
how
do I freeze/copy the checkdisk report; it disappears so fast I
can't
read it.
Final verdict is the disk is ok, though.
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