The amount of free space is very important when running Disk Defragmenter. A
minimum of 15% is required but sometimes 20% is desirable if the drive /
partition
contains one or more large files. You can run Disk Defragmenter a second and
third
time if files are still fragmented after the first run. You can put files
more prone to
fragment in their own partitions.

If you use Outlook Express regularly compacting Outlook Express before
running
Disk Defragmenter is helpful.

Disk Defragmenter provides a "Most fragmented files" list. When a fragmented
file is
larger than the largest pocket of free space available then the files is not
fragmented.
Running Disk Defragmenter a second or third time does move files around and
can
reduce / eliminate the contents of the "Most fragmented files" list. The
more free
space on the drive / partition, the more likely it is that all fragments
will be
eliminated.

Free space cannot be defragmented with the Windows XP Disk Defragmenter.
Neither can your pagefile cannot be defragmented because the file is in use
whilst
Disk Defragmenter is running. You can purchase other Defragmenting Utilities
e.g.
Perfect Disk, which will defragment your pagefile and free space. Another
option is to
place your pagefile in it's own partition. A pagefile partition is best
located as the first
partition on a second hard drive. You should leave a small page file at the
original
location.
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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Skeet13" <Skeet13@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Lately i have been getting alot of fragmented files come up when i use
> the
> defrag utility. It seems as if I can run the defrag, clean everything up,
> and come back five minutes later and i'll have a ton of fragmented files
> again. I play an online game alot, and after a while the game will just
> crash. Ill get an error from the game and it will say one of its files
> have
> become corrupt. Ill run defrag and sure enough that file is listed. I
> got
> the new Soundblaster X-fi in november, so i though it was because of its
> drivers, but i took the card out, along with the drivers, but it still
> happens. All the rest of my drivers seem to be up to date. It also doesnt
> matter if my cable modem is on or not. I just reformated my computer the
> other day hoping it would take care of it, but it didnt help at all. I
> have
> a pentium 4 3g.. ATI radeon 9800 XT... 1gb of ram.. Please help me!
> Any
> help would be greatly appreciated...