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Help! Disk Defragmenter Making it WORSE!??

The computer is a Dell tower, running Vista Home Premium 32 bit.

The HDD is a Western Digital 250GB.

After a fresh Re-install of Windows Vista, I ran a few things which I always do after a fresh re-install, namely a quick run of CCleaner and - after all updates and whatnot, I run Piriform Defraggler to defragment the HDD.  After it defrags down to about the 4% or 5% level, the computer is done.

In this trouble case, I noticed the disk was fragged up about 30%.  I ran the defrag program and it got worse!  40%.  I restarted, ran it again, and now it is fragmented about 61% ( I stopped the process in the middle this time).

What is going on?
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Running chkdsk right now, will come back with results.
Tony,
Hopefully you did step one first.
I ran diagnostics on the machine before beginning the reinstall, and the drive tested fine.  User data is all backed up ( I use FABS), but re-install won't be fun if the disk dies between now and when the chkdsk is finished.
Good,
Drives are cheap, recovering data can be costly.
i would get a replacement drive just in case you need it, don't want to be waiting arround for this.
Bizarre.

Diskchk fixed a few things ( I noticed as it was running), but the PC completed dskchk and restarted while I stepped away.

When it rebooted, I installed and ran Auslogic, and it came up as follows:

C: 1% fragmented
D: (Recovery) 80% fragmented.

Rather odd, but the recovery partition isn't of great concern, so I'm going to hide the recovery partition, and leave it be.  Must have been possibly a bad sector which was handled by DKSCHK, but it all looks good now!

Thanks for the suggestions and help.
Thank you, gents.