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[cloudsa]

Hi, I have been using Defraggler with my 250 drive, and it worked great. But the drive has crashed. Now I am back to my 80 gig drive that only has 10 gigs free space. Will defraggler work??
Thanks
Steve

[redhawk]

Defraggler uses the Windows API to defrag the file system so the only requirement is you're running 2K/XP/Vista/Windows 7 with administrator rights.

Richard S.

[cloudsa]

I have now run Defragller 3x. Each time, however, its starts out by saying that the drive is 12% fragmented. At the same time, each time, the number of fragmented files decreased, so does the size of the largest fragmented files? Do you think that the program is defragging the drive in stages, or something?
Thanks
Steve

[kroozer]

My hunch is that the fragged files are mostly Sys Vol Info (Restore) files and Temp Int files, neither of which are defraggable.
You will always have frags - it's unrealistic to have nil fragmentation because frags are created every time you do something with your pc.

[norel]

To me Defraggler's analysis results are as good as worthless. If the drive is all blue blocks and contiguous that's about the best you can hope for.

It does seem to me that sometimes it can take Defraggler a few passes to get everything straightened out. But when you use it on a regular basis it usually does it all in one.

[cloudsa]

it finished, and it's mostly blue!!

[Zeu5]

While it's true that some of the files may be in System Volume Information or another system directory, defragging actually DOES reduce the size of files. By moving them together on the drive, it removes all of the links that the system has to use to keep track of the segments, freeing up a bunch of space depending on how many fragments there are of that file. Also, the reason you are having to run it repeatedly might be that 10GB's is a little small for manipulating 70GB's of data. So, your theory on it working in stages sounds accurate. But I'm glad it worked out for you in the end.