Defrag will not finish

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Mike Palecek

I have a Windows 2000 server with an 18GB array. A few weeks ago it
had less than 10 MB free on it so I deleted about 8GB of old data and
logs.

Disk Defragmenter shows that the entire drive is fragmented, but when
I try to defrag it, I let it go and when I come back to it the defrag
is not running anymore and there are no errors or messages and the
drive is not defragmented. I have made sure that the recycle bin is
empty and there are no hidden files of any type on there.

The only solution I can think of is to copy the files off of that
drive, format it, and put them back. The only problem with that is
that it is a production server and I cannot take it offline for that
amount of time.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this>

-Mike Palecek
 
Mike Palecek said:
I have a Windows 2000 server with an 18GB array. A few weeks ago it
had less than 10 MB free on it so I deleted about 8GB of old data and
logs.

Disk Defragmenter shows that the entire drive is fragmented, but when
I try to defrag it, I let it go and when I come back to it the defrag
is not running anymore and there are no errors or messages and the
drive is not defragmented. I have made sure that the recycle bin is
empty and there are no hidden files of any type on there.

The only solution I can think of is to copy the files off of that
drive, format it, and put them back. The only problem with that is
that it is a production server and I cannot take it offline for that
amount of time.

Does anyone have any suggestions for this>

-Mike Palecek
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How much free space reported? If 10% or less, defrag just gives up. If
you copy enough data to increase free space by another 10% it may run. Have
you tried chkdsk /f on the volume? Have you emptied recycle bin?
Mike.
 
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