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Disk Defrag eats up HDD space?
Name: Keith Date: August 24, 2003 at 20:06:15 Pacific OS: Win XP home 2002 CPU/Ram: Anthlon 1.3gig/383mb ram
Comment:
Ok I started defraging my Hard Drive and in the process I looked at my space on the Hard drive listed in the defraging window and it was steadily decreasing. Now I am not sure if its done that before but if its normal or whatever the case. I just wanted to check on it. Thanks in Advance
Name: capt Date: August 24, 2003 at 20:26:03 Pacific
Reply:
Are you sure that it is not "system restore" that is eating up your disk space and not defrag. 10% is the default drive space that system restore can use.
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Response Number 2
Name: Keith Date: August 24, 2003 at 20:29:38 Pacific
Reply:
No i mean it is literally going down right before my eyes while the disk is defragmenting. it went from 30 to 29gig's while it was defragmenting. I was wondering if that was normal.
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Response Number 3
Name: teri Date: August 24, 2003 at 20:48:46 Pacific
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Disk defrag in XP requires that you have a miminum of 15% free space on your drive for defrag to run. Could this be your problem??
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Response Number 4
Name: Mattwizz3 Date: August 25, 2003 at 04:26:43 Pacific
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I was going to explane it but it was going to take to long so ill just say, Yes it's normal, as long as when it has finished defraging you get your space back it is fine. Sometimes you should get more space when it is finished.
Mattwizz3
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Response Number 5
Name: Kevin Date: September 4, 2003 at 14:13:29 Pacific
Reply:
I'm having the same problem. I went from 22% free space to only having 15% which means that I lost about 2 gigabytes. I'm using Diskeeper 7.0
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