Outlook.pst not defragmenting

External Since: Oct 19, 2006 Posts: 1

I have attempted to defrag my windows XP sp2 HD (wth 25% free space) several
times and always the same 2 files cannot be defragmented, Outlook.pst 1.69 GB
56,221 fragments and a .wmv 459 MB 1,651 fragments.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

External Since: Jun 11, 2004 Posts: 16

Likely to due the fact that the built-in defragmenter requires contiguous
free space the size of a file in order to defragment the file.

If you don't have 1.69GB of contiguous frees space, then no joy in
defragmenting that file.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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>I have attempted to defrag my windows XP sp2 HD (wth 25% free space)
>several
> times and always the same 2 files cannot be defragmented, Outlook.pst 1.69
> GB
> 56,221 fragments and a .wmv 459 MB 1,651 fragments.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.