Cannot defrag drives

[AlienEmpire]

The defrag util on my Windows 2000 sp4 server starts but when I click on Analyse or defrag nothing happens. Nothing get entered into the event logs and there are no errors of any kind.

I've rebooted the server and I am logged on as Administrator.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[Jpoandl]

Does the DFRAG window hang? ...if defrag hangs, you may have a severly fragmented hard drive. You may need to upgrade to a third party defragmentation program. Or in a real bad scenerio, you may need to reinstall your OS.

However, if you click defrag and nothing happens, and the application does not hang, it just might be a problem with the dfrg.msc. In a sever case, you can try to copy dfrg.msc from another similar machine (same service pack level, os level, etc).

More information:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_defragmenter_utility.htm

Joseph L. Poandl
MCSE 2003

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[AlienEmpire]

Thanks for the advice but it didn't resolve my problem.
I don't believe the drives are fragmented to the point that it would be a problem. The server is less than a year old and doesn't have a lot of data being changed.

The defrag program doesn't hang it just doesn't start to defrag.

 

[swabs]

have you tried to defrag it from the cmd line?

 

[SonOfEmidec1100]

Does this KB article give any clues. For example it says you cannot defragment NTFS volumes with cluster sizes larger then 4 kilobytes (KB) in Windows 2000...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;227463