Defragging

[XCorvis]

I've tried starting from Safe Mode, using chkdsk (/f) and using SpeeDefrag to no significant effect.

What do you mean by that? It stopped at 20% again? If that's the case, there's some kind of disk issue.

 

[TogaMario]

That's pretty much the case with any disk operations, isn't it?

Aye, but not all typical disk operations will have you leaving your machine to do it's business for hours at a time.

 

[Victim]

What do you mean by that? It stopped at 20% again? If that's the case, there's some kind of disk issue.

I suppose. The restart made it difficult see exactly when it stopped. Running the default defrag in analyze mode showed only a .01 change in the fragmented file ratio, so I'm forced to conclude that it stopped in roughly the same place.

Thanks for the advice.

 

[D'karr]

Make sure you have stopped your screen saver. Anytime the screen saver starts it will end up causing the defragmenter to restart. I believe if the defragmenter is forced to start 5 times the defragmentation fails.

 

[werk]

Make sure you have stopped your screen saver. Anytime the screen saver starts it will end up causing the defragmenter to restart. I believe if the defragmenter is forced to start 5 times the defragmentation fails.

Ditto this, but if you have 87% unmoveable files you got serious problems.

When's the last time you ran (updated/current) antivirus or did a format/reinstall?

Not being able to defrag is a symptom, not a cause.