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Windows Defragmenter Broke
Avoneer - 16/5/06 at 07:52 PM

It won't work anymore.

Screen appears and when I highlight a drive and click on analyse or defragment button, it doesn't start and the analyse/defragment button returns to a "clickable" state.

Any ideas anyone?

Only thing I can think of is that I renamed the hard drives earlier, but it still won't defragment or analyse even when I changed them back to what they were before.

Pat...

the_fbi - 16/5/06 at 08:08 PM

You tried defrag from a command prompt?

RichardK - 16/5/06 at 08:09 PM

Maybe Windows is sooooooo happy with your drives it really doesn't think they should be touched

Seriously what OS are you using?

Got enough free disk space spare? Have you run chkdsk? Anything in your eventviewer, (run eventvwr.msc) if there is go to www.eventid.net to find out what them dodgy looking numbers mean

Regards

R

[Edited on 16/5/06 by RichardK]

BKLOCO - 16/5/06 at 08:21 PM

Get a decent defrag program.
The windows one is a pile of poo anyway
O&O is good.

Avoneer - 16/5/06 at 08:57 PM

Win2kPro.

Not tried a Checkdisk or from command prompt - give us a clue!

Pat...

RichardK - 16/5/06 at 09:03 PM

Try Start button, the Run Button the stick in chkdsk to check the disk or to run defrag in the run box type in cmd and press enter a black dos box will appear, then type defrag c: -a and press enter if the drive you want to anylise is c: remove the -a to start defrag


[Edited on 16/5/06 by RichardK]

Avoneer - 16/5/06 at 09:28 PM

My dos box says "defrag" is not recognised as an internal or external command.

Pat...

RichardK - 16/5/06 at 09:38 PM

Sorry pat, forgot win2k doesn't support command line defrag, detail here

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223146/

Think it a 3rd party solution, BKLOCO's suggestion is a good one.

There is a small command line version that I used years ago can be found here

http://www.morphasys.com/autodefrag/


Sorry can't help further

[Edited on 16/5/06 by RichardK]

the_fbi - 16/5/06 at 10:05 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Avoneer
or from command prompt - give us a clue!

Sorry, I'd presumed XP and hence the clue was in the question

May be worth checking your event logs to see if anything is being logged when the GUI defrag isn't doing what it should.

Right click "My Computer" / Manage / Event Viewer.
System & Application logs.

Peteff - 16/5/06 at 11:09 PM

Try defrag in safe mode. If a background application is running like antivirus it will restart from scratch.

britishtrident - 17/5/06 at 06:37 AM

Are you logged on undera user name that has full admistrator privillages ?

James - 17/5/06 at 09:30 AM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Are you logged on undera user name that has full admistrator privillages ?


Good suggestion.

That's just dragged up an old memory from my desktop support days!

Cheers,
James

tks - 17/5/06 at 10:47 AM

else the program wouldnīt start, show up.

The problem wich i think you have is that the "disk" service isnīt running or has a problem. maybe its disabled??

go to services and look at the services names...

think its called diskservice

Tks