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Defrag window 2000 no enough free space

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by california dead head

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I am running a non-domain controller w2000 server. When I try to run defrag on the 5 GB system partition that has 1GB free space (25%) it tells me there is 25% free space 0% of which is usable by disk defragmenter. Delete some files and try again. I delete some files and it says there is 25% free 1% is which is usable by disk defragmenter??? Any thoughts. Be specific I am not to bright.

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by goliath viking

You probably should empty your trash can. Also if you have i.e Norton installed there will be a 'Norton Protected Recycle Bin' to empty.

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by matt duggan

I'm fairly sure that the defrag utility that ships with win2k for free requires contiguous free space. It may be seeing that 25% as being taken by your pagefile, trashcan, or scattered file fragments.

The commercial version, Diskkeeper Server, tends to be a bit more flexible. It also seems to deal with defrags while users are connected a bit better (the free version sucks almost 100% CPU, and restarts every time something changes, drives me up the wall!)

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