Hard drive stuck at 2% fragmented?

[wburton]

I cannot defrag my hard drive. Its says 2% fragmented no matter what I do. Last thing I did was move around some game files to an external hard drive and then installed a 12gig game.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

wburton72 lähetti viestin:

Not to be mean but I'm not asking what program is the best to defrag my hard drive with. Don't need to start another software war.

Ultradefrags good, open source, and has lots of options.
http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraDefrag
including boot time.
Many claim to be faster or whatever but the honest truth is drives are slow and mostly what limits speed is the time it takes to move all that data, so the ones that are done in a snap probably just cheat and call it job done. I really doubt their sorting algorithm is that smart, in any case as you can see from the tests the cheaters could just make things worse at times.

HiredMercenary.Doe lähetti viestin:

disable hybernation and PageSwap also disable system restore points they are useless

then defrag with Auslogic Disk Defrag Free
make shure in the settings it has checked "move windows to front of disk"

Drives are big enough that hibernation is fine to have around, if you do turn off your pc for extended periods its better than wasting power on standby.

Restore points are not something you should disable as far as I know.

I trust ultradefrag more, its in development, its free, and it uses microsofts defrag api.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

You need 15% free space or more, otherwise this might explain your drive not defragging completely.

If your PageFile is set to Auto-Manage, change this to No PageFile; apply this, click Ok and then restart. This will get rid of the temp file for your PageFile. After the reboot, change the PageFile setting to Manual and set to 4096 Min/Max and apply, Ok and then reboot once more.

If you do not use Hibernation; then remove that. Cause that can be quite a large file as well. If u have say 8GB RAM; the hibernation file is roughly 6GB of wasted space (75% of your RAM size, allocated as a temp file for hibernate purposes)

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

Bad-Motha lähetti viestin:

You need 15% free space or more, otherwise this might explain your drive not defragging completely.

If your PageFile is set to Auto-Manage, change this to No PageFile; apply this, click Ok and then restart. This will get rid of the temp file for your PageFile. After the reboot, change the PageFile setting to Manual and set to 4096 Min/Max and apply, Ok and then reboot once more.

If you do not use Hibernation; then remove that. Cause that can be quite a large file as well. If u have say 8GB RAM; the hibernation file is roughly 6GB of wasted space (75% of your RAM size, allocated as a temp file for hibernate purposes)

Well 6GB of 1-4TB these days is kind of a joke:P

Ultradefrag like most smart defrag programs will ignore super large files with not that many fragments, so it just won't get down to 0% unless you really go insane with the ocd. The report log will show you which files are fragmented, usually its just media files and those just don't matter.

One can defrag just a single directory with the boot time script.

Or use contig to force a file to be contiguous. theres also a program specifically to defrag page files. Not really necessary but in special cases.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageDefrag

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Seriously; just use Auslogics Disk Defrag; if it won't defrag, go into Safe Mode and do it.
Then select "Defrag & Optimize"

It's not really a matter of the %; because the % is based on the total space of the drive or data (I forget which) but 2% fragmented could be alot, or very little, depending on your drive.

Overall, it is good idea to defrag your HDD's every now and then. No need to do it all the time, just because u get it to 0% and then install a game and have it jump up a little. Unless u are seeing performance issues, then most likely defragging isn't going to help in way of performance. There are reasons to do it, sure. But again no need to get all OCD with it.

[wburton]

Can you reset the page file or does it reset when you change it to a custom size? I would like to try that first before anything else.

[MA☝Omgwtfbbqstfu™]

wburton72 lähetti viestin:

Can you reset the page file or does it reset when you change it to a custom size? I would like to try that first before anything else.

If you are paranoid about your page file being fragmented you can use page defrag, or just bootime defrag. Usually people just set it at 1.5x size of ram so windows doesn't resize it and waste time. If you have large amounts like 16GB+, you probably don't need that much.

[ttv.ac6identalgenius]

I used auslogics defrag free and it worked like a charm. I must say goodbye to the old windows defrag.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

AccidentalGenius lähetti viestin:

I used auslogics defrag free and it worked like a charm. I must say goodbye to the old windows defrag.

Make sure to bring up MS Disk Defrag and Disable the Scheduling option that is always on by default.

I've used Auslogics and Piriform since very early WinXP days. Their apps work very well and have alot of options.