Issues with defrag

[aroostook]

Hi. I have a Win2K server with a pretty-well fragmented partition. I've run defrag on it dozens of times, and there are still TONS of file fragments left on the drive. The little color display is almost 90% red. There is 39% free space on the drive.

Is there some kind of setting I can adjust to keep defrag chugging at it until I get a better result? It seems to only take defrag about 5 minutes to "defrag" the drive. I need to get this in shape.

Thanks.

 

[LWComputingMVP]

In the analysis, what are your most fragmented files and how large are they?

You can remove them by MOVING them to another drive and then defragging, then moving them back.

 

[itsp1965]

Usually when a server reaches about 35% avail space defrag seems to have issues. A couple things to consider
- Try moving your pagefile to another partition if you haven't already
- Move data files temporarily to another location
- If you are running applications that lock files like Exchange or SQL server, you will need to stop these services before performing a defrag.

Hope this helps

 

[cpjust]

I'm in the same boat as you.
Here's my thread which might help:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1405834