Let me defrag!!!

[Zephyr102]

Title about says it all. Been trying to defrag my second hard drive ( E: ), but Disk Defragmenter keeps telling me a Chkdsk is scheduled. The constant Chkdsk nagging at startup is WHY I wanna defrag in the first place, since I've already let it run... twice... then it snuck in that third time before I switched my screens on today. And it's yet to find whatever it's looking for. I've run programs off of it just fine, and haven't had any corrupted file issues; I've been able to access everything just fine.

 

So how do I get my cranky old rig to let me run the defrag it probably needs? Been searching for answers, but nothing seems to fit the bill.

 

Comp specs are in my sig.

[ita]

Just get Auslogics Disk Defrag and run it.

[evilneko]

If ChkDsk wants to run it means Windows thinks there may be a problem with that drive. If it wants to run consistently at every startup, either something's going wrong during shutdown and it's raising red flags, or ChkDsk may be stuck in one of the many locations Windows checks for programs to run on boot and not getting cleared on a successful run.

 

I'd advise not defragging until you know more. Defragging will not clear whatever is causing ChkDsk to run, and if there is a legitimate problem then defragging may very likely make it worse.

 

Try manually running it yourself, and see if that clears it.

[Marthos]

If you can, copy the contents of the drive to another drive, format it and then ChkDsk it, if its ok put your files back, if not you may have try a drive rescue program, can't think of one offhand but Bben will know of one.

[Zephyr102]

Found a more thorough disk check in Compmgmt.msc. It took all night, but it worked its magic, and no more Chkdsk on startup.