Badly Fragmented Hard Disk Degrading Performance

[Jiffyman]

Last night before I went to bed I decided to take a look at my hard drive and see how fragmented it was. When I looked the fragmentation was pretty bad. So I did a defrag. Tis' morning when I looked at the report it told me some files could not be defragmented. Heres the report

Volume (C
Volume size = 128 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 85.34 GB
Free space = 42.65 GB
Percent free space = 33 %

Volume fragmentation
Total fragmentation = 22 %
File fragmentation = 44 %
Free space fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 106,559
Average file size = 1 MB
Total fragmented files = 381
Total excess fragments = 109,389
Average fragments per file = 2.02

Pagefile fragmentation
Pagefile size = 1,000 MB
Total fragments = 1

Folder fragmentation
Total folders = 7,810
Fragmented folders = 1
Excess folder fragments = 0

Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 113 MB
MFT record count = 115,287
Percent MFT in use = 99 %
Total MFT fragments = 2

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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented
573 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.016
493 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.047
508 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.034
552 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.052
492 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.048
490 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.074
495 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.080
528 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.077
500 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.038
486 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.070
494 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.072
548 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.003
496 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.062
498 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.001
518 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD2\rzr-fsxb.049
500 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.007
489 48 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\171023d4-9c4c\DVD1\rzr-fsxa.002
878 56 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\My Documents\BitTorrent Downloads\Palm Apps v2\Palm Apps v2.rar
559 102 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\My Documents\Linux Software\VMware-server-1.0.2-39867.tar.gz
1,654 167 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\My Documents\BitTorrent Downloads\Mcafee AIO Suite 2006 +antispyware(tested)\Mcafee AIO Suite 2006.iso
585 191 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\My Documents\Nero 7 Ultra Edition.exe
1,848 324 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\My Documents\XWIN815-final.exe
559 330 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\9d6df351-4ae6\Setup-2.bin
746 646 MB \Downloads\SoulReaver2Setup.exe
1,055 661 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\b73c00de-0e64\NFSUCD2.ISO
2,622 670 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\My Documents\BitTorrent Downloads\Abe's Oddysee\Oddworld.img
1,757 694 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\b73c00de-0e64\NFSUCD1.ISO
1,230 700 MB \Documents and Settings\2 Wyte\Application Data\BitTorrent\incomplete\9d6df351-4ae6\Setup-1.bin
814 9.93 GB \Virtual Machines\Mandriva Linux\Mandriva Linux.vmdk
484 10.00 GB \Virtual Machines\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition\Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition-flat.vmdk

I can see why the bittorrent downloads won't defragment, but the rest I don't know about. I would love it if someone could help me out. I've tried to do a defragment in safemode and the same thing occurred.

 

[heyman421]

What i did to remedy this problem is use a secondary hard drive for my utorrent working directory, and then set it up to move completed torrents back to the main disk, and in copying from one disk to another, correcting all of the fragmentation that occured.

 

[Jiffyman]

hmmmm what about the files that are not torrents. Virtual hard disk for example.

 

[heyman421]

you have to defragment your virutal memory upon boot

diskeeper can do it by running a boot time defragmentation

it just takes a few minutes

 

[Jiffyman]

Is Disk Keeper a program I have to download? Also I wan't to defragment other files besides bittorrent and VM disk.

 

[meanman]

diskeeper is not a free program but is brill at what it does google it .

 

[Jiffyman]

Is there a free program I can use?

 

[Jiffyman]

BUMP.......

I really need to get this fixed before it's too late. Can someone please help me out.