HDD won't defrag...

I just put in an older, but stable working HDD into my computer for a second drive. I plan on using this second HDD for my games. Have Win XP and the paging file on a separate HDD then my games to try to improve performance a bit.

When I added the games to the HDD, they become a little fragmented, so I wanted to defrag to make sure everything ran as smooth as possible.

Windows' own defrag only gets to 3% and then stops. I have run HDD health diagnostics on the drive and it passes with flying colors.

Any reason why it would do this?

 

Dont have a real answer, but have seen this before, try an after market program, bet it will work fine.

Ed

 

Try this program ..seems to work well for me
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5318

 

Did you run diskcleanup and is there enough free space on the drive for a defrag? You could try it in Safe Mode so that nothin clashes with the defrag.
Alternatively do what i did when i got tired of the long defrag times, get another tool. I tried out DiskeeperLite first ( you can download it from the dwnloads in this forum) and have now upgraded to the paid version which really rocks!:clap