HELP! Too fragged to Defrag?

If u dont need data on it, I would sugeest just to format it and start from scratch.

O&O defrag, download the trial and run it in defrag space mode.. also if able to pull everything off the drive and format to nfts

Are you sure its not just full? Windows defrag won't work if you don't have at least 15% free space on the drive...which you should have anyway because beyond that point the drive will get very sluggish.

i would give auslogics defrag a try
http://www.overclock.net/downloads/2...sk-defrag.html

make sure you have some free space on it or no matter what de-fragger you are using it wont be able to do it.

Try with a defraggler! First of all, remove all files and applications you won't need in the future. Do the defragment when you are sleeping.

try a different defrag software.

Part of the problem is that the drive will not allow me to pull data off of it, it even has problems deleting files due to it being fragmented. He has recordings backed up onto it that he cannot afford to lose. He's only using about 50% of the HDDs capacity so it should be fine to defrag.

Are you sure that drive isn't on its way out? Not being able to delete files or move files sounds pretty dangerous.

edit: Maybe you should scan for bad sectors and run a full diag on it. The last thing you want to do is defrag with a hard drive that is dying.

jkdefrag?

how can u have a fragged hard drive that can't be defrag? then just format

IOBit Smart Defrag is what I use on my main rig but that's for idle defrag. Either way, its a free no-hassle smart defrag. As others have suggested, pull everything off and reformat to NTFS. I think fat32 is better for smaller storage like usb drives.

IOBit SmartDefrag for me.

I would backup all the data.. defrag might cause it to corrupt if the drive is having problems reading the files at he current state.

Before you do anything, run SpinRite on level 4 first to fix any errors you may have. After that, you can use R-Studio to retrieve any files and copy them to a new drive. Alternatively, you can use Acronis True Image after running SpinRite to image the entire drive.

I wouldn't even worry about defragging until after I have the data safe on a drive that I am sure is not failing, and trying to defrag over and over is only going to send it to an early grave.