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Answer» I've used DisKeeper for years. Recently, it won't work properly. It gets to 40% complete and then stops. So I uninstalled it and tried windows defrag both from the "TOOLS" menu and from the "DISK MANAGEMENT" screen. Windows won't analyze or defrag. I hit the "ANALYZE" or "DEFRAG" buttons and nothing happens. My sys is custom built, Core 2 Extreme x6800, 4 mb cache; Terabyte RAID 5 Boot drive (the RAID 5 contains 3 WD SATA2 500 gig drives controlled by an INTEL PCIe Raid 5 Card) and a secondary WD 320 gig SATA2 Drive. All drives are 7200 rpm. Four gigs Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 memory. Sys is 2 years old & gets slower as time marches on. I thought I would unistall DisKeeper and re-install & see if that fixed the problem. Haven't re-installed DK yet but was surprised Windows defreg wouldn't work either. (When DK is installed, Windows Defrag is unoperable. If you try to use Windows defrag, DK starts up. This has always been the case. Thanks for any help... What did you do before the problem? (downloads, installs, hardware changes, ect....) I suggest downloading JKDefrag and see if it can analyze your drive: http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/JkDefrag/JkDefrag.htmlDisKeeper replaces the defrag component built into Windows... Did you say you re-installed it and it still would not run ? ? GO to Start/Run and type in sfc /scannow and hit Enter. Have your Windows CD handy as it will ask for it. Let it finish and re-boot... Quote from: patio on September 30, 2008, 05:41:57 AM DisKeeper replaces the defrag component built into Windows...Oh yes, I forgot about that. (I have diskeeper on ONE of my machines)No... I haven't re-installed DK yet. But I'll do so and see what happens. After I un-installed DK, I thought the Windows DeFrag would work & when it did not I thought I had other possible problems. Thanks... Gar...Two things come to mind..... 1. Any Defrag requires a considerable amount of HD space to move files around. Lacking sufficient space.....defrag will bomb out. 2. NO Defrag will run (correctly) if there are errors in the data structure on the HD. I'd recommend removing every file from the HD that you don't need. Then run CHKDSK /r to repair any errors on the drive. If you don't know how to thoroughly clean your HD, PM me for specific information on how to perform that task. For SAFETY, STOP using third party defrag programs. The safest Defrag program that you can use is the one that came built into Windows. I was very disappointed in the Windows XP defrag, in that it wouldn't compress the data area like the Windows 98 and ME Defrag did. I got around that minor dissappointement by doing a Ghost backup to my second drive and then immediately doing a Ghost Restore, which re-writes the entire data area, with NO spaces and NO fragmentation. My hard drive then looks like this to Windows Defrag Analysis. That beats the crap out of any so-called defrag program. You won't get that kind of re-organization of a HD from any program that I'm aware of. A while back I mistakenly tried a HD Defrag program called the "Defraggler" or some such. It screwed up my HD so bad that even a Ghost restore couldn't fix it. That's the last time I'll ever try a third party defrag program. Good Luck, The Shadow I have found both Windows Defrag, JKDefrag, Defraggler, Auglostics and IOBit Defrag and none of them have had any problems. |
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