[Pinhead-227]

I ran defrag over night last night and when it was done it said it couldn't defrag all files. There's still a lot of red where it wasn't defragged. I thought maybe the files were in use or something, so I tried in safe mode and the same files couldn't be defragmented. Here's part of the lotfile.

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Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmented 2,230 464 MB \\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\source engine 64-bit.gcf 11,891 841 MB \\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\half-life 2 content.gcf 4,661 976 MB \\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\source sounds.gcf 4,163 1,024 MB \\UNDERWORLD\\VTS_01_1.VOB 3,766 1,024 MB \\UNDERWORLD\\VTS_01_2.VOB 4,103 1,024 MB \\UNDERWORLD\\VTS_01_3.VOB 3,790 1,024 MB \\UNDERWORLD\\VTS_01_4.VOB 12,666 1.02 GB \\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\source materials.gcf 15,455 1.55 GB \\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\SteamApps\\counter-strike source shared.gcf

The same files when trying to defrag in Safe Mode and in normal mode. Also, the last time I tried to play HL2 it took forever to load from the hard drive. I was guessing it's because it's terribly fragmented. The biggest issue with that is my hard drive is NTFS, so the normal DOS Defragmenter won't work. Does anyone know of a disk defragmenter that can bypass this problem, maybe defrag an NTFS partition from DOS?

 

[Chim3ra]

You can try Diskeeper. I use it for my rig, and it keeps everything nice and neat from what I can see. Just download the trialware which lasts for 30 days if I remember right. It might be less.