Can anyone help me out with this? Google has not been my friend on this one.
I am trying to defrag a drive that is used strictly for storage. No system files, no program files. Further, I did not use the drive, for anything, during the defrag process.
The results were very disappointing, going by the colored bar display, and the report at the end. “Some files in this volume could not be defragmented.” Nothing about why.
I hate to think what will happen when I actually do try to defrag my C: drive.
The system is Windows XP MCE. The drive is NTFS, mounted in an external enclosure connected via USB. I am using the Windows defrag utility.
All the files that couldn’t be defragmented were large, ranging from about 700 Mb to 4.36 Gb. I did clear space on the drive before defragging, the program wanted at least 15% free space and I got a little higher than that.
Anyone have any ideas?