Solve : Defragmenting trouble.?

1.	Solve : Defragmenting trouble.?
Answer» I used a deframgmenting program to see if I could speed up my Boot time. Well I used it and left it to defragment over night when I awoke I saw my computer was choppy THINKING I only needed to restart I did so. The Boot took 10x as long excessing at 1min+. It automatically started a DskChk before coming to the sign in which it cancels it's SELF almost immediately for some reason? I kept trying to do a dskchk by restarting until it finally stopped canceling itself. Then when it did finally start I let it go for hours till it started SCROLLING "bad cluster". Then said "Not enough disk space to replace bad cluster" which I have plenty of room left 52% or so. I guess not plenty but enough I would like to think. Thing is I can't get the chkdsk to stop canceling it's self. everything is fairly new probably...a little under a year old. It didn't come with Restore Disc. So I'm kind of sketchy on Reformatting unless someone could tell me how to do it exactly? So maybe could someone tell me of a program or something for a easy fix? preferably not wiping everything clean but if that's the only way then maybe tell me how I would go about doing that possibly without Recovery disc? I hope I'm not screwed any help would be appreciatedIf chkdsk will not finish i would DLoad and run the HDD manuf. diagnostics utility available free at their website. These run off of a BOOTDISK so Windows is not involved. That drive may be failing...What is it exactly?I used an HDD Checker. It said the realiablity and performance is fine. hmmmm does that mean I'm not screwed? lolWhat program did you use ? ? This is important they are not all built the same. As to the other issues if the drive is actually OK you might be able to do a repair install of Windows to fix things...but for that we would need to know what flavor you have including service packs and what type of CD's shipped with the machine...Flavor? I have SP2. uhmm what was the program you were telling me to use before? Quote from: SadlyStupid on April 04, 2007, 09:24:36 PM I used a deframgmenting program to see if I could speed up my Boot time. Well I used it and left it to defragment over night when I awoke I saw my computer was choppy thinking I only needed to restart I did so. The Boot took 10x as long excessing at 1min+. What, exactly, does that (in red) mean? Are you saying that, after this defragging attempt, your boot time was only "1min+", or a little over 1 minute? And, are you saying that is 10 times longer than it was before? Whoa! Why in the world did you think you needed to speed up boot time? My MAIN rig takes about 1 1/2 minutes for bootup by the time AVG updates, etc. But, I just defragged my OS partition; it took 2 min. 45 sec. The last time I defragged was 3/10/07.Quote from: SadlyStupid on April 05, 2007, 04:48:06 AM Flavor? I have SP2. uhmm what was the program you were telling me to use before? What i meant by flavor is what version of Windows... For the HDD diagnostics find out the make of the hard drive and get it from their site. This is important as they are written specifically for your drive and is the most efficient means of finding out the health of that drive. Don't make the mistake of assuming since it's fairly new the drive is OK...i've seen new drives out of the box fail inside of 90 days.

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I used a deframgmenting program to see if I could speed up my Boot time. Well I used it and left it to defragment over night when I awoke I saw my computer was choppy THINKING I only needed to restart I did so. The Boot took 10x as long excessing at 1min+. It automatically started a DskChk before coming to the sign in which it cancels it's SELF almost immediately for some reason? I kept trying to do a dskchk by restarting until it finally stopped canceling itself. Then when it did finally start I let it go for hours till it started SCROLLING "bad cluster". Then said "Not enough disk space to replace bad cluster" which I have plenty of room left 52% or so. I guess not plenty but enough I would like to think. Thing is I can't get the chkdsk to stop canceling it's self. everything is fairly new probably...a little under a year old. It didn't come with Restore Disc. So I'm kind of sketchy on Reformatting unless someone could tell me how to do it exactly? So maybe could someone tell me of a program or something for a easy fix? preferably not wiping everything clean but if that's the only way then maybe tell me how I would go about doing that possibly without Recovery disc? I hope I'm not screwed any help would be appreciatedIf chkdsk will not finish i would DLoad and run the HDD manuf. diagnostics utility available free at their website.
These run off of a BOOTDISK so Windows is not involved.
That drive may be failing...What is it exactly?I used an HDD Checker. It said the realiablity and performance is fine. hmmmm does that mean I'm not screwed? lolWhat program did you use ? ?
This is important they are not all built the same.

As to the other issues if the drive is actually OK you might be able to do a repair install of Windows to fix things...but for that we would need to know what flavor you have including service packs and what type of CD's shipped with the machine...Flavor? I have SP2. uhmm what was the program you were telling me to use before? Quote from: SadlyStupid on April 04, 2007, 09:24:36 PM

I used a deframgmenting program to see if I could speed up my Boot time. Well I used it and left it to defragment over night when I awoke I saw my computer was choppy thinking I only needed to restart I did so. The Boot took 10x as long excessing at 1min+.

What, exactly, does that (in red) mean? Are you saying that, after this defragging attempt, your boot time was only "1min+", or a little over 1 minute? And, are you saying that is 10 times longer than it was before? Whoa! Why in the world did you think you needed to speed up boot time?

My MAIN rig takes about 1 1/2 minutes for bootup by the time AVG updates, etc. But, I just defragged my OS partition; it took 2 min. 45 sec. The last time I defragged was 3/10/07.Quote from: SadlyStupid on April 05, 2007, 04:48:06 AM

Flavor? I have SP2. uhmm what was the program you were telling me to use before?

What i meant by flavor is what version of Windows...

For the HDD diagnostics find out the make of the hard drive and get it from their site. This is important as they are written specifically for your drive and is the most efficient means of finding out the health of that drive.

Don't make the mistake of assuming since it's fairly new the drive is OK...i've seen new drives out of the box fail inside of 90 days.

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