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defragment hard drive

  • 15-02-2009 1:32pm
    #1
    T Corolla
    Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭


    Folks,
    I am trying to defragment the hard drive of my PC and i am unable to complete I have gone into my computer and select the C drive and format but there is an error coming up stating Error windows cannot format the drive quit any disk facilities or other programmes that are using this drive and make sure there are no windows is displaying the contents of this drive then try formatting again


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  • #2
    keen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 987 ✭✭✭keen


    Formatting the disk will delete everything from it.

    To defragment click start>all programs>accessories>system tools>disk defragmenter


  • #3
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    You should see this window for defrag

    Disk%20Defrag%2001.gif


  • #4
    Gadgetman496
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,408 ✭✭✭Gadgetman496


    You also need to have a minimum of 15% of the total Disk size free to be able to carry out a defragment.

    -

    "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."



  • #5
    Jonathan
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 8,217 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jonathan


    The built in windows defragmenter is rather poor.

    Try using jkdefrag.


  • #6
    redox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭redox


    Don't try to format the drive; you'll lose all the data! :eek:

    Defragging is different from formatting. Formatting wipes the contents of the drive (not securely though) while defragmenting rearranges the file fragments to make them contiguous and improve disk performance.

    I agree, Windows defrag is not the best. I personally use Diskeeper 2009 Pro and I am really happy with it. Set it on automatic, and never have to defrag again. Also defragged one of the drives that had only about 6% free space left.


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  • #7
    97i9y3941
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭97i9y3941


    has anyone ever tried Auslogics Disk Defrag?,use it often myself,coolest part is,if you have a pc with a fast cpu,i.e dual core or something,you can set it to use all the comps resources to speed up the defragmentation


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