Defrag Question, need help?

[golfnut]

I use "diskeeper" to defrag my hard drive about every 2 or 3 days. I just noticed something very strange and would like to know from someone if this means my hard drive is bad. Once I defrag with diskeeper it says my hard drive is now "healthy". The very next time I run a program, one or any program, maybe 30 seconds after I defrag I checked my hard drive with diskeeper and it says my hard drive is in "critical" state and needs to be defragmented. Well I just defraged 30 seconds ago and it was "healthy", 30 seconds later it is "critical", what does this mean? Please help if you can. Thank you very much.

[Cobra]

This could be one of two things. Firstly, this application is not defragging your disk at all, and it's telling you lies. Secondly, it could be just lying about needing to defrag. There is no way your hard drive can fragment instantly like it is saying.

Go to: Start --> Program Files --> Accessories --> System Tools --> Disk Defragmentor

See what Windows has to say about your hard drive state. Defrag with this utility - I know it's not the best but it does defrag and it does work.

Hope this helps.

Cobra

[Faustus]

Happened to a friend of mine. If your running either a VIA or nVidia chipset mobo be sure to update your drivers package for it. He eventually had to reformat and install the newer package and the problem went away. Very little work was causing major fragmentation.