Volume could not be defragmented?

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Lauria

What does this means??
"some files on this volume could not be defragmented"? This is from my
daughter's computer, hers is Window XP. I've tried to defragged her
computer and this message showed up. How or what can I do about it?
Thanks,
Lauria
 
Lauria said:
What does this means??
"some files on this volume could not be defragmented"? This is from my
daughter's computer, hers is Window XP. I've tried to defragged her
computer and this message showed up. How or what can I do about it?
Thanks,
Lauria
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Could include the Windows swap file and any files currently in use by a
running application. To some extent the areas in use by applications
could be reduced by defragging while running Windows XP in safe mode.
 
Lauria said:
What does this means??
"some files on this volume could not be defragmented"? This is
from my daughter's computer, hers is Window XP. I've tried to
defragged her computer and this message showed up. How or what can
I do about it?
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It means... "some files on this volume could not be defragmented" <- cannot
think of a better way of saying it really.

Example of what may have happened in other terms...
You are cleaning your floor. You have a broom that will reach every corner
of the room and so - you stand in the very center and do not move from that
spot or lift your feet or stand on anything, etc - while you clean... The
spot under your feet does not get cleaned. It was 'in use'.

What should you do? Ignore it and move on.
 
Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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What does this means??
"some files on this volume could not be defragmented"? This is from
my daughter's computer, hers is Window XP. I've tried to defragged
her computer and this message showed up. How or what can I do about
it? Thanks,
Lauria
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That's not unusual; in fact, it's common. Some files cannot be
defragmented while they are in use, and some files are ALWAYS in use.
Normally you can ignore it unless the details indicate a great number of
still fragmented files.
Things like the page file, some of the system files, special files
from other systems, etc. can not be defragged. You can almost surely
ignore it.

Doing the Defrag from Safe Mode can sometimes defrag a few more of the
files than in normal mode, but not for sure; it depends on what they
are.

It's highly likely you are safe just ignoring that one particular
message.

HTH

Twayne
 
Twayne

You overlook large files when there is limited free disk space.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
~~~~
FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
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