Defrag Prob

[oldman]

I am not computer smart, and here's my problem. I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC. When I try to defrag HP_Recovery (D it won't let me because I have these come up as very fragmented.

/Preload/Base.INP, /Preload/Base_01.INP all the way through
/Preload/Base_15.INP.

They say these display the path and name of most fragmented files on the volume and number of frags those files are in.

#1 - What are these files?
#2 - I don't know how to delete them or even if they can be deleted.
#3 - Are their any cures?

I'm on dial-up so if I could correct these files I'm thinking it might help speed things up a little.

Thanks for any help that may be offered.

 

[GWguy]

The "D:" partition on an HP is used solely for recovering your PC to the state in which it was purchased. Nothing is ever written to that drive (or shouldn't be..), so nothing there changes. No need to defrag that drive. You could possibly corrupt the recovery files making them useless.

 

[theArtistFormerlyKnownAs]

The "D:" partition on an HP is used solely for recovering your PC to the state in which it was purchased. Nothing is ever written to that drive (or shouldn't be..), so nothing there changes. No need to defrag that drive. You could possibly corrupt the recovery files making them useless.

You are going to want to defrag the C: drive (partition). As GW states, messing with anything in the D: drive will probably do more harm than good. I wonder if it even allows you to mess with the data? I'm going to check when I get home.

 

[oldman]

The "D:" partition on an HP is used solely for recovering your PC to the state in which it was purchased. Nothing is ever written to that drive (or shouldn't be..), so nothing there changes. No need to defrag that drive. You could possibly corrupt the recovery files making them useless.

Thanks, think that makes me feel a little better. But it does prompt me to ask why then the program would allow to defrag that partition and what would cause all those files to be so fragmented?

 

[oldman]

You are going to want to defrag the C: drive (partition). As GW states, messing with anything in the D: drive will probably do more harm than good. I wonder if it even allows you to mess with the data? I'm going to check when I get home.

Thanks to you also. I do defrag my C: drive now and then. Perhaps one cannot do anything with D: which is why I mentioned not even being able to delete them if I had wanted to. Appreciate the help guys.

 

[GWguy]

Thanks, think that makes me feel a little better. But it does prompt me to ask why then the program would allow to defrag that partition and what would cause all those files to be so fragmented?

The drive isn't "protected" in any way, so defrag doesn't know any better. As far as the files being defragmented already, it's just the way they were written. Some files may intentionally be written in such a way as to prevent them from being copied or manipulated. It is of no consequence. Nothing that happens on that drive has any affect on the way your computer runs.

 

[oldman]

The drive isn't "protected" in any way, so defrag doesn't know any better. As far as the files being defragmented already, it's just the way they were written. Some files may intentionally be written in such a way as to prevent them from being copied or manipulated. It is of no consequence. Nothing that happens on that drive has any affect on the way your computer runs.

Well I learned my lesson for today. Thanks again.

 

[GWguy]

Well I learned my lesson for today. Thanks again.

 

[TWL]

You are going to want to defrag the C: drive (partition). As GW states, messing with anything in the D: drive will probably do more harm than good. I wonder if it even allows you to mess with the data? I'm going to check when I get home.

Messing with the files shouldn't harm anything...if they're not deleted. Moving them via defrag is no more dangerous than a defrag on the c drive(partition, volume, whatever they call it now). The reason that drive can't be defragged is most likely because of the lack of free space on that drive. The contents on that drive are only protected by setting the SHR(if I remember correctly) attributes. From the command prompt you can "attrib -shr d:\" and be able to view all the files on that drive. Although you won't cause any harm by unsetting the attributes it's not recomended to do if you ever need to restore your computer to factory settings. If you're like me, it can be an hour or two of fun playing around with that stuff.

 

[oldman]

Messing with the files shouldn't harm anything...if they're not deleted. Moving them via defrag is no more dangerous than a defrag on the c drive(partition, volume, whatever they call it now). The reason that drive can't be defragged is most likely because of the lack of free space on that drive. The contents on that drive are only protected by setting the SHR(if I remember correctly) attributes. From the command prompt you can "attrib -shr d:\" and be able to view all the files on that drive. Although you won't cause any harm by unsetting the attributes it's not recomended to do if you ever need to restore your computer to factory settings. If you're like me, it can be an hour or two of fun playing around with that stuff.

Yep, it does say defrag cannot be accomplished because it needs at least 15% and I only have 11%. Think I'll just leave things as they are because I always get into trouble by doing something I have no business doing. Thanks for the info though.