Author Topic: Defragment (Read 32032 times)

chris635 · « **on:** October 29, 2012, 12:56:12 PM »

Hey Guys

Looking for a way to completely defrag my drives without using third party defragmenters. I read somewhere that -w switch is not supported in windows 7. Is this true? Normally I use "defrag c: -v -w".

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #1 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:14:55 PM »

Put this in a bat file

start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: /H /V
start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: /H /V /X

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #2 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:20:55 PM »

What do these do and how do I put into a bat file?

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:45:58 PM »

Here is mine I run before I head to bed.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:46:15 PM »

Will this do all drives at once?

Shane · « **Reply #5 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:47:19 PM »

Just the C: drive. If you want to add other drives you do it like this, you will see D: is added

start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: D: /H /V
start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: D: /H /V /X

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:49:37 PM »

Thanks for that. Right when you sent it I figured out how to make bat file. It was easier than I thought. Good to know.

Chris

chris635 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:54:58 PM »

Wooo I got this.

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #8 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:57:10 PM »

I bet you have UAC enabled, right click on the bat file and click run as administrator

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:00:28 PM »

I have it off. Ill try as administrator. I checked and it is there.

Chris

chris635 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:02:10 PM »

Nope, same thing...uhhmm.

Chris

chris635 · « **Reply #11 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:03:59 PM »

Normal defrag works from gui

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #12 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:06:10 PM »

Very odd. Can you run it from a cmd window your self?

Also try this in the bat file

start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: /H /V
start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: /H /V /X

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #13 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:10:14 PM »

Shane · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:12:37 PM »

OK so you can run defrag from cmd manually.

Try this, move the bat file to the root of the C: drive and try it.

I notice where you are running the bat file that there is a space in the path. That might be getting in the way.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:19:32 PM »

Same thing

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #16 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:22:39 PM »

what the crap lol. I wonder if something is blocking the bat file?

Here is a way to test. Open a cmd.exe window and past this in

start /wait %SYSTEMDRIVE%\Windows\System32\defrag.exe C: /H /V

Does it work?

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #17 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:25:33 PM »

Yep works fine

Shane · « **Reply #18 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:29:23 PM »

Then something is blocking the bat file. What AV do you have installed?

I know Avast has a sandbox mode (Which I disable)

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:31:56 PM »

avast but it doesn't show sandbox blocking. ill trun it off and try

Chris

chris635 · « **Reply #20 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:34:02 PM »

Same thing

Shane · « **Reply #21 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:36:04 PM »

Try disabling avast all together and any other protection you have and see.

Very odd something is blocking the bat file.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #22 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:38:48 PM »

I can run other bat files. I recently had diskeeper installed (realized i don't need it). could that be the problem

Chris

Shane · « **Reply #23 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:51:07 PM »

Dont see why it would be. You can run the commands from a cmd window but not from a bat file.

Not sure what is going on there. It is like the bat file doesnt have permission to access the system32 dir.

Shane

chris635 · « **Reply #24 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:52:14 PM »

Curious for sure. My system runs perfect other wise

Chris