Vista Defrag Problem!!

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Steven Blank

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I have run Vistas built in Defrag utility and a couple of 3rd party apps and I've run CHKDSK. It still shows 52% fragmentation! System is a Dell Latitude E6400 with Vista Biz SP2

Thanks in advance,

Steve
 
Do you have Vista defrag set to execute automatically on a regular schedule ?
Little and often is best.
I have Vista and W7 set to defrag daily, mid afternoon while the PC is most likely to be idle, and all my partitions show 0% frag.
If you don't defrag frequently, it can take a lot more passes to get the job done when you do try. (or some more expensive, more sophisticated software.)
 
Steve, it sounds as if either:

It's not running on schedule like it should

Or

Your drive really is fragmented. The defrag utility sometimes needs to run a few times in such cases as this

Also, stick to the system's defrag utility only. You shouldn't need third party tools to defrag the drive as well.
 
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