Why no defrag?

[xcellerate]

Fragments | File Size | File Name
4..................12MB............2005-12-12 at 09
48.................948MB..........EA Downloader
12.................1.30GB.........SteamsApps
650...............3.58GB..........FEAR.Arch00



why is 5.8GB of my harddrive unable to be defragmented?

 

[$kelet0r]

partition maybe?

 

[Jammydodger]

system resources?

 

[Direwolf]

corrupt patches?

 

[xcellerate]

lol, well i'm glad we got the problem narrowed down. My resources should be enough, i have 17% free, and it only needs 15% to do it. The patches shouldn't be corrupt, i mean everything works properly. And i don't have a partitian, i do have a second harddrive though.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Are you defragging in normal boot up windows? If so, boot up into safe mode and do defragging, its much better IMO.

 

[Jammydodger]

hmmm never thought about that, how is this better m8?

 

[xcellerate]

I tried doing it in safe mode and got the exact same problem.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

On this pc does something similiar, even tho it has the 15% free it still doesn't defrag everything, I think it needs more than 15% maybe 25-30% before it will defrag everything, who knows. XP is wierd.

On my gaming pc, both my HDD's will defrag without a hitch, lowest on my 40gig was 34%.

 

[Qonfused]

Defragging does nothing to system performance. Theoretically, it does, but it doesn't.

 

[DiSTuRbEd]

Defragging does nothing to system performance. Theoretically, it does, but it doesn't.

Right.....Pull head from arse much? I guess not.

It does help with system performance, you're trying to say a HDD with thousands of fragmented files will run the same as a HDD with no fragmented files? RIGHT!

 

[xcellerate]

According to Leo Laporte from g4tech TV, "After you're through [defraggin], all your files will be optimized and in one place. You should notice an improvement in the speed of your computer right away."

 

[Qonfused]

When TechTV was still TechTV and G4 didn't pwn it yet, they did a lot of experiments with "speeding up your system." They cleaned the registery; little to no effect. Defragged; little to no effect. Added a simple 512MB of RAM; up to 30% or so. Meh, whatever.

Rofl, just a week ago, they did another experiment, xcellerate. He said that exact opposite thing.

 

[Vegeta897]

I don't know what you are talking about Qonfused, but after I defragged, my games loaded atleast 50 percent faster. Same with anyone else I've talked to. They were the ones that recommended I defrag, because of this.

 

[Absinthe]

I can notice drastic differences after defragging, but that may be because my HD gets pretty sloppy after a while.

Even if it is bumpkus, I'll do it anyway, if only for the nice placebo effect.

 

[Qonfused]

Well, let's just put it this way: out of 200GB, I'm using 48GB. In other words, that's not a lot, so I guess I wouldn't see a speed increase. Whatever. Forget I said anything.