Defrag problem-

Hey guys, My brother is having a problem with defrag files. To make a long story short, I finally got it to defrag to 100%, but since he hasn't done it in quite awhile, there are a bunch of fragged files on there (the red ones) and I mean a bunch! I tried to defrag it like 6 or 7 times, but those fragged files just won't go away. Any ideas?

One more thing while I'm here. He plays video games (I know, wrong forum--sorry) and he constantly gets booted out of them to his desktop. Could this maybe have something to do with the defrag? Any ideas on this?

Thanks for any help. Much appreciated.

 

You don't say what windows version you are using.

But, if you are using windows 98, infact any version of windows, then defrag should be done in safe mode.

As the computer starts, press the F8 key, and then choose safe mode. You will know if you in safe mode, because the screen will have less colors, plus the words safe mode will be in each corner...(win98)

Some files cannot be moved so you may get some blocks marked with an x I think..

The red blocks you refer to, sounds to me like physical damage to your hard drive.

To prove this, you should run scandisk and do a surface scan.

As for the games, it isn't likely that fragmentation will cause this, because fragmented files just de-crease system performance.

It is probably lack of system resources such as memory or graphics card .

If you only have the minimum spec for a given game, this could cause the problem.

 

Thanks for the reply--sorry about the Windows version, it's XP Home-the defrag works fine, it's just that the red areas are still there, at least 50% red, although I've done it like 6 times since the last post, the red is slowing going away. I guess it will take about another 20 times or so to get rid of it all I guess. I'll look into the memory thing also. Thanks again Future.