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Trouble defragging 2000 server

I have been keeping up with the amount of storage space left on my C: drive. It just recently crossed the 25% free space remaining, so I went to do a defrag and I get this error of sorts...

21% of disk space free, only 2% available to defrag.

Then it goes on to tell me that it needs 15% - which I already knew.

What can I do about this ... run defrag anyway? There is not much if anything I can delete permanently.

Thanks for the help :)

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paleface

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Thanks.

I had already deleted all temp files possible. I found one DMP file that I got rid of that was sizeable, but no where near large enough to free up what was needed. But advance searching for the giant files really did the trick in uncovering some things I had missed that could be moved. Also the page file was 1.5 gig and all on C: so I split that and put the majority on another drive which helped immensely.

Can someone explain why there appears to be so much room - now 48%, but the graphical representation still looks like barely 15%, and how are you supposed to know since Windows doesn't tell what's available for defrag unless there is not enough room for defrag .... ????

jdeclue

The defrag program that comes with windows is a very basic and crippled version of Diskkeeper. I don't know why the graphical representation is so far off, usually it is fairly close.

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