megamanXplosion Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 (edited) For some strange reason, defragmenter is reporting two different sets of numbers for the amount of free space I have. At the top where it says C: it shows the correct percentage of free space, but the graph shows an incorrect percentage of free space. When I finish defragmenting the graph gets closer to the real value but it still way off - the more I defragment the closer I get to a correct graph. However, it appears that defragmenting doesn't really do anything, if I close defragmenter and start it again then it shows that ridiculously large number in the graph again! See the picture I have attached, it should give you a better idea of what's happening. It is very strange though. I've used the Disk Check utility to fix filesystem errors and try to recover bad sectors (on drive C: and D:) but it didn't seem to do any good. Does anyone have know what could be causing this discrepancy and how I could fix it? Edited July 23, 2005 by megamanXplosion Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/347962-strange-problem-with-filesystem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 i think this is minor problem and it's only a graph. i wouldn't care much about it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/347962-strange-problem-with-filesystem/#findComment-586257162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
megamanXplosion Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 Perhaps, but would you want to have a program moving individual peices of data around on your hard drive when it can't even reliably tell how much data is there? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/347962-strange-problem-with-filesystem/#findComment-586257188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
megamanXplosion Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 Okay, I believe I have solved the problem. I created a full backup of the files on my C: partition, reformatted it, reinstalled windows, then restored the files from the backup. Disk Defragmenter appears to be reporting the information accurately in the graph now :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/347962-strange-problem-with-filesystem/#findComment-586257516 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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