Defragmentation issue

[travis60]

Running XP pro on my laptop and can never seem to get completely through the defragmentation process the windows defrag utility seems to invariably hang up. Anyone know much about why this is?

 

[CompTIA_Rep]

Could be may things, usually a running process that prevents data from being moved.

Boot into safemode and try again.

 

[harveytoot]

I've never liked the in-built defragger, way way too slow. Diskeeper are offering free trials from their website. It's much faster and better than the in-built.

 

[Hawkeye22]

How much free space is on the drive? The defragger needs free space in order to temporarily shuffle files around. If your drive is over 80% full you may run into issues.

 

[marbski]

try to chkdsk your HDD, then scandisk..