cant defrag my external harddrive??

[maggot]

hi i have tried on 2 pcs to defrag my 114gb external harddrive,as it was in such a bad way,i stopped it after 36hrs,now when i try again,i get this message

defragmenter has detected chkdsk is shceduled to run on this volume
i have searched and ran this program,nothing happens ,it is located in windows,
any ideas??

[thevoelk]

Let Windows run the chkdsk when it starts. You may have seen the message at startup. Or, try this:

Let Windows detect the drive when plugged in.
Go to Start-->Run, and type CMD and hit Enter.
In the command prompt window, type:
chkdsk [drive letter]: /X or
chkdsk [drive letter]: /F

If you use the /F switch, you will have to agree to force a dismount, which the /X switch does automatically.

Make sure you don't have any data being accessed on the drive before you run this, the dismount will make the drive inaccessible. After this you should be able to defrag the drive.

[hech54]

I use a little app called PowerDefragmenter...but I think it is only for XP.

[maggot]

hi thank you, will try both ideas