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Offline Larry

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Disk Defragmenter
« on: August 22, 2009, 10:30:34 PM »
It really has nothing to do with AH but I thought Id post it here. About a month ago my Disk Defragmenter started acting up. It would let me defrag any of my (E:) drives (thumb drives) but when I try to defrag or analyze (C:) a pop up shows up saying "Disk Defragmenter could not start".


Any tips?
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2009, 10:35:37 PM »
Is that the built in defragmenter or one you downloaded to use?

What happens when you force a scandisk on reboot?
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2009, 11:17:51 PM »
do you have DCOM disabled in your service console? without it defrag cannot run on your hard drive
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2009, 11:23:41 PM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on August 22, 2009, 10:35:37 PM
Is that the built in defragmenter or one you downloaded to use?

Yes.

Quote from: gyrene81 on August 22, 2009, 10:35:37 PM
What happens when you force a scandisk on reboot?

Dont really know what you mean by 'scandisk'.


Quote from: batch on August 22, 2009, 11:17:51 PM
do you have DCOM disabled in your service console? without it defrag cannot run on your hard drive

Its enabled.
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2009, 11:28:59 PM »
Scandisk...checkdisk...it's a built in feature of Windows that scans the drive for errors. Open "my computer" then right click no that drive...go to "properties" and find the tab labeled "tools"...then click on "error checking"...it will take a while depending on the size of your hard drive.
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #5 on: August 23, 2009, 12:16:02 AM »
"Windows was unable to complete the disk check"


I'm guessing that is bad.






Might be time for a reformat.
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #6 on: August 23, 2009, 12:50:00 AM »
you don't have screensaver enabled do you? 

sometimes windows screensaver when enabled, will make the windows OS disk defragmenter not start, keep stopping or starting over , will do the same for scandisk

if the Windows Screen Saver option is not enabled, then you might have a problem......


you might want to try getting a different disk defragmenter program too.... I myself use, the one that comes in my "Paragon HDD Manager™ 2009 Pro"  software.......it goes in to a DEEP InDepth Defrag that defrags the system before the OS loads up to the desktop..... very thorough

my 2 cents.....
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #7 on: August 23, 2009, 09:26:20 AM »
Quote from: Larry on August 23, 2009, 12:16:02 AM
"Windows was unable to complete the disk check"

I'm guessing that is bad.

Might be time for a reformat.
Hmmm...that's not good for sure...could be a bad windows install or a disk going bad...did that error message come up after the restart? Did it even start doing a check disk?

TC has a good idea...I use auslogistics disk defragmenter...the one TC uses is a lot more heavy duty but the auslogistics works well for normal use.

Try a different disk defragmenter and if that blows out on you..."disk read error"...or something along that line...new drive...if any other error messages come up, reload the drive.





Side note, TC with screen savers or power management on, disk defragementer will at least start.
Quote from: Larry on August 22, 2009, 10:30:34 PM
...when I try to defrag or analyze (C:) a pop up shows up saying "Disk Defragmenter could not start".
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #8 on: August 23, 2009, 09:58:14 AM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on August 23, 2009, 09:26:20 AM
Side note, TC

thx gyrene, sometimes is not wise to post as you bout to go to bed...... completely missed that........ yep it should start, it will just never finish or keeps starting over....


prob go a bad sector or as said above disk going bad......... ( unless you have yourself tinkered around with the services & processes, then it might be something as a simple restoring to an earlier point? )
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #9 on: August 23, 2009, 12:11:59 PM »
Sounds like a virus affecting disk tools to work on the system drive.  Also you might want to provide a dxdiag so we can verify certain memory configurations.
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #10 on: August 23, 2009, 12:54:32 PM »
Disk defragmenting is generally a waste of time. 5% increase in load times at max and zero affect on gameplay.
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #11 on: August 23, 2009, 01:08:27 PM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on August 23, 2009, 12:54:32 PM
Disk defragmenting is generally a waste of time. 5% increase in load times at max and zero affect on gameplay.
Hmmm I must have faulty systems...my load times decrease notably especially if it's been more than 6 months and when I clean and defrag the registry.
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2009, 09:24:25 AM »
Quote from: gyrene81 on August 23, 2009, 01:08:27 PM
Hmmm I must have faulty systems...my load times decrease notably especially if it's been more than 6 months and when I clean and defrag the registry.

I can wait 0.5 seconds longer without troubleshooting defrag problems for hours like the OP.  ;)
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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2009, 09:33:24 AM »
If you have to "troubleshoot" defrag issues then something is wrong.

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Re: Disk Defragmenter
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2009, 10:09:04 AM »
Quote from: Ghastly on August 24, 2009, 09:33:24 AM
If you have to "troubleshoot" defrag issues then something is wrong.

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Well obviously but to add insult to injury, by posting this we already spent way more time than defragging would have saved him.
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