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Windows 2000 Defrag problem

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by ravenhawk

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On a hard drive when I do a properties from the Windows Explorer it shows that there is plenty of free space available. However when I try defragment it with the Windows Disk Defrag tool it shows in the upper window plenty of free space but almost the entire mapping is in red and attempting to defrag results in the report there's no room to perform the defrag. Any suggestions?

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by ravenhawk

DKlippert - although this answer did not result in a solution to the problem in past questions I posted I was unclear how the system worked and you cleared that up, but only after I closed questions improperly and ended up (unintentionally) robbing you of deserved points. I am going to flag this as 'accepted' to compensate for those points. Consider the outstanding balance as interest earned.

by kevin_b

Did you run a thorough scandisk with the repair option checked first? If not try that. Look at the page file to see if it is set too high. Make sure there are no programs or services running that you don't need (virus scan software, internet download programs, webshots, etc.) Make sure you are not on a network or dial up connection. If all that fails, try it in safe mode like the previous answer stated. Good Luck!

by ravenhawk

Found the answer to the problem to be a single text file that grew to over 200 MB. Unable to delete or open it. Moved it to a different partition on the same drive and afterwards all readings regarding size were correct. Thank you to those who responded.

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