Hard drive so fragmented I can't defrag?

[Kurtiskain]

Hey guys not sure whether this belongs in the software or here but any who,

I have a 80 GB IDE drive I use for my 'storage drive' I.E for all my old stuff I no longer need on hand that fast.

Problem is It has been rather sluggish and I have wanted to defragment it only to find there was well over 90% red on the analysis! :O

So I 'defragged' it twice, each time it getting to a point where it could not defrag any more, and so far it does not seem to be getting any better the more I try... I will post a screen shot just to show how bad it is and I would like some suggestions on how to make this better

Kurtis

P.S most of the reason it seems so empty now is i backed up alot of stuff to DVD so it would have more room to work, but it only seemed to create more lines

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[Dusty]

Try running defrag from the Command Prompt using the -F switch to force a defrag if disk space is low.

If your system disk/partition (C:) is also badly defragmented you're heading for bigger troubles.

Good luck.

[Kurtiskain]

I dont think it's that disk space is low...(if you look drive g: (storage) has 49% free...)

i'll try the DOS version though

jut as soon  as i find out what the command is

Kurtis

[patio]

Where the heck have you been ? ? ?
 

You may want to run chkdsk /r on it first.

[Broni]

Windows needs at least 15% of a free space to operate properly. You have 12%.

[Aztec]

Ouch, that's a pretty  fragmented drive. The windows defragger needs to run many passses to defrag such a drive, and even then it may not  succeed, especially if the system files are fragmented (it cant defrag the mft and page file). Just grab the free 30 day trial version of Diskeeper 2009 from their website, install it and leave it on automatic defrag, or run it manually. DK should easily be able to defrag that drive regardless of what types of files are fragmented, or the % free space. I use the older 2008 version, and it's awesome. V.2009 ought to be even better I think.

[JJ 3000]

I would just save everything that i wanted to save from that drive and then format it.

[Dusty]

I dont think it's that disk space is low...(if you look drive g: (storage) has 49% free...)

Sure, but that 49% seems to be heavily fragmented as well meaning that several passes might be needed to defrag a file.

 

[patio]

DisKeeper Lite is also still available...includes everything but the scheduler function.