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I have about 3 dozen "won't defragment" scenarios in my notes, but we don't know which one you might be experiencing (or maybe none of them).I'll just take a guess and offer that when you try to defragment you see this message:Disk Defragmenter has detected that Chkdsk is scheduled to run on this volume: (C:) Please run Chkdsk /f.If that is not what happens when you choose to defragment, exactly what does happen? Please provide additional information about your system:What is your system make and model?What is your XP Version and Service Pack?Describe your current antivirus and anti malware situation: McAfee, Symantec, Norton, Spybot, AVG, Avira!, MSE, Panda, Trend Micro, CA, Defender, ZoneAlarm, PC Tools, Comodo, etc.Was the issue preceded by a power interruption, aborted restart, or improper shutdown? (this includes plug pulling, power buttons, removing the battery, etc.)Does the afflicted system have a working CD/DVD drive?Do you have a genuine bootable XP installation CD (this is not the same as any Recovery CDs that came with your system)?What do you see that you don't think you should be seeing?What do you not see that you think you should be seeing?If the system used to work properly, what do you think might have changed since the last time it did work properly?Do, or do not. There is no try.I decided to save up points for a new puppy instead of a pony!

What do you mean by will not defragment? Does the analyse button work? If yesI would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents Folder. Open the file, and place the cursor anywhere in the file, select Edit, Select All to highlight all text and copy and paste into the body of your message. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it is more informative. If you have more than 15% free disk run chkdsk. If less than 15% free disk space providing the previously mentioned report will prompt me to offer further suggestions. Select Start, Run, type cmd and press ENTER. Type "chkdsk c: /f /r" without the quotes and hit ENTER. Make sure you include the spaces indicated. Enter Y when asked whether you wish to run chkdsk on restarting the computer. Exit and restart the computer. Marking off bad sectors on a hard drive takes time so be patient. Marking off does not repair a bad sector. It places pointers on the drive telling the system not to read or write to those sectors which have been damaged. If the number of bad sectors continues to increase after you have run the procedure above several times then you should replace the drive. If an important system file is written to a bad sector you can corrupt registry hives and lose the whole contents of the drive. On the other hand if having run chkdsk you see no more new bad sectors then the drive can work for you for years. Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell