[krazykat]

Hello,

I have a 2 problems with Diskeeper manual defrag. I have XP Pro SP3. I start the manual defrag and the analysis screen shows a lot of “red” fragmented files and the page file is not continuous. The defrag process starts and runs for a very long time; in fact I have to stop it after several hours. The message bar says “ searching then moving files, then searching, ect.

I stop the defrag process, close Diskeeper, restart and do an analysis. The amount of “red” fragmented files displayed is the same, maybe more!

Is it normal for manual defrag to take a long time? I would expect with two hours of defraging the amount of fragmented files would be reduced enough to see the difference on the analysis screen.

Comments and / or suggestions?

Second: I want to defrag the page file and make it continuous. I set diskeeper to do a boot degrag. At bootime, Diskeeper says is “processing” and takes about 15 minutes to step through all of the different steps. But again there is no apparent results. The page file still does not display as a single continuous file. I thought bootime defrag is supposed to make the page file continuous?

Amy help, comments or suggestions are welcome,

Thanks

 

[kevmacca]

defrags can take hours if they have not been done for a long time, i use jkdefrag which is quite fast. http://www.mydefrag.com/

 

[LMiller7]

What percent free space do you have?
It would be a good idea to check the drive for errors.

A moderate level of pagefile fragmentation (several hundred fragments) will have an insignificant effect on performance. I don't know if Diskeeper will defrag the pagefile. Pagedefrag, a free download from Microsoft, will do this. But it is generally pointless.

 

[flummiht]

I had a serious problem with the page file. Every so and so many minutes the PC kept frantically moving the disk read head for minutes. I followed a forum advice and eliminated the page file on drive c: and created a new one on another drive. The problem is gone now.

As far as diskeeper is concerned, I don't know wether defragmentation has a positive effect on performance but in theory it should have one. I ran manual defragmentation on my c: drive at least 20 times or so and the amount of fragmented files is now zero according to the stats. But the volume map still shows a lot of red.

I wrote to Diskeeper support twice for an explanation but their customer service is non existent.

It is obvious that if you have a lot of fragmentation and very little free space diskeeper has a hard time to move large fragmented files into one contiguous space. My advice would be to delete everything not needed thus creating enough free space and then run manual defragmentation a number of times (maybe over night) until the stats say 'number of defragmented files 0'.

If the effect on performance is minimal ... tough luck. But the money is spent anyway so why not make an attempt.