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Bires
12-07-2003, 07:53 AM
This morning I ran the full suite of updates, spyware checks, antivirus, reg cleaners/fixers, disk scanners, and defrags...and I noticed something that kinda irritated me.

There seems to be A LOT of unmoveable blocks with my WinXP computers. Even on my partitions with only games and movie and mp3 media-about 1 in 20 blocks is unmoveable.

Why?


And, is there a defragger out there that will defragment them? (I'm currently using FixIt Utilities 5)
PCC
12-07-2003, 08:03 AM
The unmoveable blocks are usually system files.

Norton usually can move them but it's really slow going doing so.
Bires
12-07-2003, 02:19 PM
Originally posted by PCC
The unmoveable blocks are usually system files.
Norton usually can move them but it's really slow going doing so.

One of the drives has only MP3's / DIVX / GBA on it. I wonder if it considers the thumbnail files unmoveable files. Man...so irritating.

Are you sure the newest version of Norton can move them? All versions of systemworks up to 2002 couldn't.
PCC
12-07-2003, 04:46 PM
Nope, not sure but Norton has traditionally been the best at it.

The only alternative is an old administrator's trick and that is to completely back up the drive and then do a restore over the existing drive.
DaNewbie
12-07-2003, 07:13 PM
try diskeeper, one of the better defrag tools out there. It can defrag everything including system files, but it might require you to reboot so it can do the scan before windows starts up
Bires
12-08-2003, 06:21 AM
Originally posted by DaNewbie
try diskeeper, one of the better defrag tools out there. It can defrag everything including system files, but it might require you to reboot so it can do the scan before windows starts up

That's a good idea. I'll give it a try.
gwilks98
12-08-2003, 05:19 PM
Diskeeper is great for this. Also, I believe Sysinternals.com has a few performance utilities that can degfrag page files, etc.
rajatQ2
12-09-2003, 12:00 PM
have you made sure that all programs and explorer windows and excess services are turned off before defragging?
attgig
12-09-2003, 12:17 PM
yeah, might be the system restore. keeps track/history of what's in the drive. it can be turned on for all of your drives, which take up space.

right click my computer, properties, system restore.
Bires
12-09-2003, 03:14 PM
Never saw the need for system restore...so don't use it. I'll try diskkeeper when I...uh...aquire it. ;)