'not enough space'

[shadrack]

I have a 40gb drive w/37.5 useable, and about 1.5 free (I know. I know. . ). How much space is needed to defrag the drive? Tx!

[solbjerg]

Hi shadrack

I would opt for minimum 15% = 6 GB.

Can you get hold of an extra disk and install it?

Cheers

solbjerg

 

I have a 40gb drive w/37.5 useable, and about 1.5 free (I know. I know. . ). How much space is needed to defrag the drive? Tx!

[bbanks69]

300 gig hd 105 free message "not enough space"

 

i have a 300 gig hd, with 105 gig free, but smart defrag will not defrag, it tells me not enough space

[jrporter13]

Not enough space

 

Everything defragments except one 14.65GB file with 15252 fragments and 3840438 clusters. While the disk size is 92GB and the free space is 56GB, the 14.65GB fragmented file should defragment, it seems to me. Yet, over and over again it just will NOT defragment. I've increased my partition size twice to no avail. Any ideas how to get this defragmented? By the way, the file is my my INBOX of my IMAP Mail.

 

Thank you.

[satturner]

Everything defragments except one 14.65GB file with 15252 fragments and 3840438 clusters. While the disk size is 92GB and the free space is 56GB, the 14.65GB fragmented file should defragment, it seems to me. Yet, over and over again it just will NOT defragment. I've increased my partition size twice to no avail. Any ideas how to get this defragmented? By the way, the file is my my INBOX of my IMAP Mail.

 

Thank you.

 

Hi jrporter13

 

I don't know if it will work for you. If the file is the inbox of your mail, it is possible that your mail program is running in the background, so it is blocked to be defragmented. Or it is be locked with Windows or another program. You can unlock it with a program Unlocker which you can find with Google.

 

Best Regards

Satturner

[Netwital]

I had a simular problem. I had 5% on my C: drive and I moved the page file to my D: drive and it gave me 15% more space to defrag my hard drive.

[IcyFrostPyro]

Hi jrporter13

 

I don't know if it will work for you. If the file is the inbox of your mail, it is possible that your mail program is running in the background, so it is blocked to be defragmented. Or it is be locked with Windows or another program. You can unlock it with a program Unlocker which you can find with Google.

 

Best Regards

Satturner

 

UNLESS!!! he has dont defrag files over 1 gb option checked... or didnt do a fast/deep optimization

[enoskype]

jrporter13, copy your 14.65 GB inbox file to other partition and then delete the one in original partition noting the exact path of the file, then copy it back to original partition with the exact original path.

 

Cheers.

[jwildstr]

i have a 300 gig hd, with 105 gig free, but smart defrag will not defrag, it tells me not enough space

 

I'm running into the same problem. The files that are left are mostly Google Desktop files, and they're all 35MB+. I suspect it's telling me that there's no consecutive block of free space it can use to defrag into...but shouldn't it rearrange to give me a big block of free space when I do a fast or deep optimize?

[enoskype]

Try more then once, after a couple of runs there may be enough space.

 

Cheers.