Hard drive does not stay defragged!

Hi Quaoar ....
I am also having defrag problems....but I am wondering, does the moving of
msvcp80.dll to System32 only pertain to the use of Norton Windoctor? And what
does it do exactly?
My problem is that I have 17% free space on my 20 gig C Drive...running alot
of programs. I have deleted a few but I need the rest, pretty much.
I have an Asus M/B/ 28.1 Celeron CPU/ 512 DDR system , running WinXP Home SP2.
I also have Nod32 AV... BitDefender 8... Registry Repair 2006...
SpywareDoctor 4.0.0.2618... Dustbuster XP... MS Office 2007 Beta.. IE7... &
Windows Desktop Search 3.0 [which I think is slowing the system down a bit,
not sure]
The Defrag seems to get to about 15%, then it ends, telling me it had
completed. But there are still alot of fragmented files, in particular a
large clump of it at what seems to be the end of the drive. What do you think
that is? And how do I resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance )

Regards..........Shazza



"Quaoar" wrote:

> Rain wrote:
> > I have Norton System Works with System Doctor monitoring the fragmentation of
> > my hard drive. For months now, I get a warning every two or three days that
> > the drive is too fragmented. I run the Windows Defrag and then System Doctor
> > says it is back to 100%, but two days later I get a warning again. It's not
> > just the warning that concerns me because I can see that the system is
> > slowing down considerably.
> >
> > It is not a virus or spyware or adware issue. I run NAV, Ad-Aware and Spy
> > Sweeper all the time. Win Doctor keeps telling me that
> > C:\Windows\system32\icardagt.exe cannot access a missing file "msvcp80.dll."
> > I downloaded this file from some site recommended by an MVP here but my
> > computer can't seem to find it.
> >
> > My HD is a year old, 40 GB, partitoned into three drives. The C drive is
> > about 20 GB with 4.5 GB free space. I have 512 MB RAM.
> >
> > I cannot defrag the E drive at all and I get a message telling me that there
> > isn't enough free space to perform the defrag. It has 8 GB with 1 GB free
> > space. The D drive has 9 GB, all free space.
> >
> > By the way, Norton System Works comes with a defrag program called Speed
> > Disk. All of a sudden it won't work and Norton's explanation is that my
> > software is out of date (it's 2003) and I need to buy 2006! WHAT??!
> >
> > So... is the amount of free space the problem? Are there other reasons why
> > a HD would not stay defragmented? Is it a good idea to buy a defrag program?
> > If free space is the problem, I do not know how to rearrange the partiton of
> > the HD and would need detailed instructions. I need to do it myself as I
> > have paid my friendly tech guy too much money and have to learn to be
> > self-sufficient.
> >
> > Thanks for your time and help,
> >
> > Rain
>
> Use the search function to find the location of the dll file and move it
> to the system32 folder. For all of your drives run chkdsk C: /f to
> verify the drive properties (replace c: with d:, e:, etc.). Then start
> the cleaning process for malware.
>
> Q
>

Hi Quaoar ....
I am also having defrag problems....but I am wondering, does the moving of
msvcp80.dll to System32 only pertain to the use of Norton Windoctor? And what
does it do exactly?
My problem is that I have 17% free space on my 20 gig C Drive...running alot
of programs. I have deleted a few but I need the rest, pretty much.
I have an Asus M/B/ 28.1 Celeron CPU/ 512 DDR system , running WinXP Home SP2.
I also have Nod32 AV... BitDefender 8... Registry Repair 2006...
SpywareDoctor 4.0.0.2618... Dustbuster XP... MS Office 2007 Beta.. IE7... &
Windows Desktop Search 3.0 [which I think is slowing the system down a bit,
not sure]
The Defrag seems to get to about 15%, then it ends, telling me it had
completed. But there are still alot of fragmented files, in particular a
large clump of it at what seems to be the end of the drive. What do you think
that is? And how do I resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance )

Regards..........Shazza



"Quaoar" wrote:

> Rain wrote:
> > I have Norton System Works with System Doctor monitoring the fragmentation of
> > my hard drive. For months now, I get a warning every two or three days that
> > the drive is too fragmented. I run the Windows Defrag and then System Doctor
> > says it is back to 100%, but two days later I get a warning again. It's not
> > just the warning that concerns me because I can see that the system is
> > slowing down considerably.
> >
> > It is not a virus or spyware or adware issue. I run NAV, Ad-Aware and Spy
> > Sweeper all the time. Win Doctor keeps telling me that
> > C:\Windows\system32\icardagt.exe cannot access a missing file "msvcp80.dll."
> > I downloaded this file from some site recommended by an MVP here but my
> > computer can't seem to find it.
> >
> > My HD is a year old, 40 GB, partitoned into three drives. The C drive is
> > about 20 GB with 4.5 GB free space. I have 512 MB RAM.
> >
> > I cannot defrag the E drive at all and I get a message telling me that there
> > isn't enough free space to perform the defrag. It has 8 GB with 1 GB free
> > space. The D drive has 9 GB, all free space.
> >
> > By the way, Norton System Works comes with a defrag program called Speed
> > Disk. All of a sudden it won't work and Norton's explanation is that my
> > software is out of date (it's 2003) and I need to buy 2006! WHAT??!
> >
> > So... is the amount of free space the problem? Are there other reasons why
> > a HD would not stay defragmented? Is it a good idea to buy a defrag program?
> > If free space is the problem, I do not know how to rearrange the partiton of
> > the HD and would need detailed instructions. I need to do it myself as I
> > have paid my friendly tech guy too much money and have to learn to be
> > self-sufficient.
> >
> > Thanks for your time and help,
> >
> > Rain
>
> Use the search function to find the location of the dll file and move it
> to the system32 folder. For all of your drives run chkdsk C: /f to
> verify the drive properties (replace c: with d:, e:, etc.). Then start
> the cleaning process for malware.
>
> Q
>