BleepingComputer.com: Recovery Drive D:\ Defragmenting

Greetings experts! I hope you can help. Having resolved a sequence of problems successfully I went into Defrag C:\ Drive OK, and then to the D:| Drive. The Analysis showed that I have only 9% Free space and message stated that 15% was necessary to allow a Defrag. The graphic showed large areas of undesirable Red, so it seems to need a gentle touch. Volume size is 6.01 Gb with 5.47 Used space and only 556 Mb Free = 9%. A Microsoft message suggests firstly that some files should be removed, but then advises extreme caution - understandably! Can anyone tell me if a Defrag will work with the drive in this state, probably running very slowly through, or will it cause harm to commence a Defrag? Would it be best to leave alone? Can I, without being an expert, remove files and, if so, which ones? Any advice will be most welcome. My PC is a Compaq Desktop on WinXP, relatively lightly used here at home in UK, and always kept as clean as I can regularly. How the D:\ drive got like this, goodness knows. Time for bed now, 23.25 hrs. Looking foward to hearing from some helpful soul. Best wishes to all, Aldeberry.

Download ATF cleaner and run the program Select all boxes and then empty selected. This should free up some more space. Disk Defrag wont run with out 15%free.



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This post has been edited by Sneakycyber: 28 January 2009 - 08:03 PM

You could also temporarily turn off System Restore (you would lose your current restore points, I believe), temporarily reduce the size of your pagefile, and eliminate the hiberfil.sys file for additional room...in some cases.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-...11-5630184.html

Louis

What hamluis has suggested is a temporary solution, but the bottom line is you are going to need to create more space on the hdd. Transferring files to either a removable media like CDs or DVDs or to another hdd is the best solution to this problem.

This post has been edited by dc3: 29 January 2009 - 02:24 AM

Aldeberry, on Jan 29 2009, 10:24 AM, said:

Yes. There's no point defragmenting a Recovery Partition. It's only ever used if you need to recover your OS, and it doesn't matter at all if the files are fragmented.