Can't Defrage XP Any Ideas 6672

Skeets

I don't know if they ever fixed these windoze zealotry problems... 1. You can't defrag any parbreastion (or is it directory?) with more than just over 50,000 of files. 2. If you have apps that are running and doing writes to the file system in some unauthorized way (i.e. viri and spyware), defrag fails. 3. NTFS is proprietory and used by windzzz zealots a lot which means read is ok but write had some problems.

For these compound problems, you could boot with a liveCD that supports NTFS and copy it to another hd, delete the first hd and copy data back again hoping that you won't be hit with any write problems. Then run the mbr fix command to fix any boot problems. If successful, you would effectively have defragged the drive. You would have fewer problems doing this if you keep your data in FAT32 format.

I don't know how big your disk is, disks are cheap, data is not. If you got $50, I'd buy a 200Gb disk and back up the NTFS parbreastion completely at the bit level with a dd command in combination with a gzip command using liveCD and then do above copy operations to another parbreastion on the spare hd. That way, if you are hit with any write problems, you can restore the entire data as it was originally.