Re: Pagedefrag


"Martin Underwood" <news@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Martin Underwood" <news@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
>>> Run pagedfrg from its EXE file and change the option to "Don't run
>>> (uninstall)".
>>>
>>> I've not had any problems: I use it regularly on my two XP PCs and
>>> ordinary defrag will always run afterwards. What's wrong with letting
>>> chkdsk run? Maybe it *needs* to run because defrag has detected some
>>> corruption of the filesystem? I'd let it run to see if it wants to
>>> repair the disk; not doing so might make things gradually worse and
>>> worse.
>>
>> OK. When I try and run defrag I get a red circle with a cross in it
>> and a message saying:
>>
>> Fisk Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on
>> volume: BOOT (C:).
>> Pleas run Chkdsk /f.
>>
>>
>> If I run Chkdsk /f, I still can't defrag.
>>
>> If the sysinternal is useful and not the problem I'll leave it.
>>
>> I've noticed everytime I boot I get lots of lines saying such a file
>> is already in one fragment, so I didn't think it was doing much.
>
> Ah. So you've got PageDefrag set to run at every boot. I tend to set it to
> "Next boot only" and to explicitly reboot when I've run it, so I know that
> normally the PC will boot up as fast or as slow as XP normally boots, and
> will only take the additional time to defrag the pagefile and the registry
> if I want it to - not when I'm waiting (im)patiently for it to boot
> becauswe I need to use the computer.
>
> So was Defrag able to run OK until the first time you ran PageDefrag and
> has only started saying it wants to run Chkdsk since then? I wonder
> whether it *is* due to PageDefrag or whether it's a coincidence. What
> happens when you run Chkdsk? Normally when you run it from a DOS prompt or
> on the next reboot, it performs 3 passes: "verifying files", "verifying
> indexes" and "recovering lost files / verifying security descriptors".
> Does it actually complete all three passes or does it terminate early with
> some sort of error message?



When I try to run chkdsk I get:

The type of the file is NTFS.

Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot rum because the volume is in use by another process. Woulkd
you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system
restarts? (Y/N).


Typing Y and restarting has no effect on the problem.


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