Defragmenting problems?

Question

I've got a Dell laptop with Windows XP professional. For some reason I can't get it to defrag. It goes through the process but it is really slow and it says it completed but it is still fragmented. I shut off the virus scan and the fire wall but that hasn't made any difference. I must of defragmented this thing 10 times today and it only down to 7% fragmentation. Any suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Download and use "VOPT" it is a defrag program and its free

It defrags my 5 partitions in about 10 minutes

http://www.brothersoft.com/downloads/vop...

go to the above site and download it

Answer 2

If you want to do a proper defag you shut off the screen saver if you got one running. Open the defag let it analize if it says to defag press ok and go to bed. ln other words don't do anything else while it's defaging and depending how often you run it. It should be finished by morning. DO NOT USE third party defags on windows systems. The next time won't take as long.

Answer 3

some things such as in use files and the virtual memory swap file cannot be defraged as they are system critical and moving them would cause the computer to crash, so windows leaves them alone.

7% may be all you can get.