Problem With Defragmenting Windows 7

Rothko

Hi, I was just trying to defrag my laptop but I'm having a problem.

When I go into the Disk Defragmenter, I have RECOVERY (D: ) (0% fragmented), HP_TOOLS (E: ) (0% fragmented) and SYSTEM (21% fragmented). I've tried to both analyse and defrag them all but none of it works. Whenever I highlight one of them and click Analyse Disk, 0% analysed will flash up under Progress and disappear again. Something similar happens when I click on Defragment Disk, only it'll flash up and say something like 1.11% consolidated or 1.12% defragmented and then go blank again.

I have looked up how to defrag my laptop and I know this isn't what's meant to happen. Can you tell me what's wrong and how to fix it? Thanks for any helpful answers.

coylemj

As far as I'm concerned Win7 looks after that automatically on the fly. I used to do it manually in XP but nowadays every time I look it tells me it doesn't need to be defragmented and I don't have any automatic defrag set.

CreepingDeath

Suas11 wrote: »

Hi, I was just trying to defrag my laptop but I'm having a problem.

When I go into the Disk Defragmenter, I have RECOVERY (D: ) (0% fragmented), HP_TOOLS (E: ) (0% fragmented) and SYSTEM (21% fragmented). I've tried to both analyse and defrag them all but none of it works.

I wouldn't touch the RECOVERY or HP_TOOLS drives / partitions.
They're typically there so that you can reinstall Windows 7 and all your laptop drivers from a special image file.

The SYSTEM partition is likely the C: drive, and the only one you should be concerned about. The others won't be read or written to and are only there in the event of an emergency requiring a full reinstall of Windows.

So just trying defragmenting the C: drive alone.

Sup08

Try look at this and do an elevated defrag..

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/11733-disk-defragmenter-open-use.html