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Defrag W2000 not enough free space

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by california dead head 2 views

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I have a W2000 server. The C: drive is very fragmented according to the defrag program included with the server ( reports alot of red in the graph). I try to run the defrag and it error with "Your disk has 22% free space 0% is useable be disk defrag. Defrag needs at least 15% useable free space in order to run properly. Do you want to run anyway?" I run it but it does not improve the fragmented condition. There is no virus software and I am logged in as Administrator. I think the drive may be so fragmented it can't get free space. Ideas???????
Any good 3rd party defrag programs for W2000 server??

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by bughunter

Win2K uses the light version of Diskeeper for defrag. You can buy a copy of the full version but it probably won't help. A general rule is try keep at least 40% of your drive free. Try removing *.tmp files (carefully), files that start or end with a ~ and any unneccessary apps. Restart the server in safe mode (F6?) and then run the defrag. Most likey your spool file and page file are eating up the little remaining space you have. Don't forget that when you run defrag the application triesto move files to some contiguous space temporarily while it tries to compact everything. This is why it needs a certain amount of free space to work.

by rickmcd

If you have pagefile on the C: Drive and you have another partition with more disk space you can move the pagefile to the other Drive/Partition. That may free up some room for the defrag. Winternals has a online defragger that may help and they havea 30 day trial. A though if you do not have another Drive/Partition you can make your swap file smaller, defrag and then change pagefile back. Probably would want to do off hour.

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