Defrag won't run
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goodloantech
, Mar 27 2008 06:20 AM
#1
Posted 27 March 2008 - 06:20 AM
#2
Posted 27 March 2008 - 07:53 AM
Do you mean that you only have 8 gigs of hard drive space left? That should be sufficient to run applications. Click Run and type diskmgmt.msc. That will open up the disk manager. Highlight the drive you want to defrag, right click and choose properties. Tools and select the defrag "analyze" option.
To find out your system specs, go to Control Panel then System. Under the general tab it will state what version of XP you have (Home or Pro, what service packs are installed) and at the bottom under "computer" it will tell you the type of processor or model of your computer and the amount of memory installed on your system.
Johanna
To find out your system specs, go to Control Panel then System. Under the general tab it will state what version of XP you have (Home or Pro, what service packs are installed) and at the bottom under "computer" it will tell you the type of processor or model of your computer and the amount of memory installed on your system.
Johanna
#3
Posted 27 March 2008 - 04:59 PM
Disk Defragmenter will refuse to defrag the drive properly if there's less than 15% space free, which in the case of a 40Gb drive which typically appears as 37.2Gb, means free space of about 5Gb to defrag properly.
Also Defrag will not run if other issues are scheduled to be done on the drive, such as Scandisk on the next boot or other utilities such as disk imaging programs for example.
Also Defrag will not run if other issues are scheduled to be done on the drive, such as Scandisk on the next boot or other utilities such as disk imaging programs for example.
#4
Posted 28 March 2008 - 04:35 AM
I should have mentioned that I have tried something like this in the past to no avial. "diskmgt.msc." gets me and error message "windows canot find diskmgt.msc." (nor diskmgt.msc) Thanks goodloantech
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