Defrag Error

[Tronic]

I'm having this very odd error in defragmenting my hard drive.. The error is "Windows could not defragment some files on this drive, to see the files click view report." I was at 46% fragmentation..and now i'm at 43%..why can't it defrag all of those files? I'm on XP home sp1a btw.

[Oluf]

try and do a scandisk first and then defrag

[Waldo2k2]

also boot into safe mode to make sure programs aren't using the files in question

[major_small]

the best way i've found to defrag is to boot off another drive with the drive in question as a slave, run scandisk and defrag it... usually it gets most (if not all) of the system files in one place and works better overall from my own experience

[Waldo2k2]

yeah that would probably be the only way to get the best results possible.

[*ClownPimp*]

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...gedefrag.shtml

This utility has an option to defrag at next boot in much the same way that windows will run scandisk during startup.

[Tronic]

Thanks for all of your help Preciate it. This has been stumping me..because I have access to every file..very wierd. But it should be solved thanks to all your help.