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Defragmentation seems to fail on file name "\"

Asked by dissol in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: could, files, defrag, fail

Running a defrag via computer management on a laptop with WinXP SP2 (single drive, so defragging the OS drive), the defrag seems to terminate early with the message:

Defragmentation is complete for: (C:)

Some files on this volume could not be defragmented.
Please check the defragmentation report for the list of these files.

There are a number of files listed, some still in several hundred fragments (and they are data files, avi files, etc - nothing that should be open or in use by anything else). The first listing in the report however, is

Fragments File Size File Name
12 893 bytes \

Saving the report output to a text file confirms that there are no trailing spaces or anything after the listed file name, it is simply coming up as "\". I do not know if this is an issue or not, I just don't recall seeing this on other machines that I have defragged in the past.

This process has been repeated multiple times, including immediately after a fresh boot.

So the original question is, what should I do to complete defragmentation of the remainder of the drive? The question that comes from looking into this however, is what is with the "\" file name being reported, and should I be worried about it?

Thus far my searching attempts have failed to come up with anything. I'm dealing with a terrible cold at the moment, so I'm perfectly open to the possibility that I'm being dense and missing something obvious here. A little shove in a useful direction please?

- Keith

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Defragmentation seems to fail on file name "\"

Asked by dissol in Windows XP Operating System

Tags: could, files, defrag, fail

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