nubiewoobie Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Hi, I always have some weird problems when defragmenting, I know its not really related to gpus or nvidia drivers but i still hope some1 can help me cos im really frustrated over this. I am currently using perfect disk 2008 from raxco and I think its pretty efficient and good cos defrag timings are really fast, about 30-1hr for my 200gb hard drive. Well my problem is that every time i defragment, I lose free space drastically. Sometimes 1-5gb, now(today i just defragged) i lost 15 gb and its not coming back. Some times in the past the free space suddenly reappeared after a 2nd pass of defragmentation. Ive done it 4 times today with a disk check as well and i still cant seem to get the space back. The problem also occurs with the default windows defragger so I dont know whats wrong. Any1 have such problems too? im running vista home premium sp 1 32bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitedragon551 Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Do you have system restore on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wook Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 It may (very unlikely) be moving your swap file around. Or perhaps not registering it when it runs the first check, then it does when you have finished. ** Try 'AUSlogics' defrag. 10X Faster than windows, and much more effective. There is also a bug in Vista when you run 'Disk clean-up' The last three options to check contain between 5-90 Gb. When you clean these all files in 'user/' will be deleted. When you restart the computer windows can not load and you need to install windows again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitedragon551 Posted August 31, 2008 Report Share Posted August 31, 2008 Wook they fixed that bug in SP1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nubiewoobie Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 yes i have system restore on but i make sure i always clean previous restore points except the most recent using disk cleanup.. I dont think restore points take about 10 gb off anyways haha thanks all for trying to help anyway.. wook ill give auslogic defrag a try but first i need the 15 gb i lost back first =( any ideas what i can do to get it back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitedragon551 Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Check your temp folder in the %appdata%. Check your temp folder in the windows system folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipper Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 Probably Vista is doing some backup operations - on my lappie in a couple of weeks I lose about 10 GB to "system files". I can get rid of them when defragging with O&O defrag. But it's no problem until my drive space gets critical, not yet at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wook Posted September 1, 2008 Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 well... thats what they said.. but it didnt work for me... hence I UPGRADED to XP ; ) vista is just a dog... will be fine in 3 years... but then i'll wait till version 8 come out. navagate to this folder C:\WINDOWS\Prefetch delete everything inside it. (not the folder though) THis will contain a lot of information that you have run on your system.. for me its about 7 Gb every month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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