Divinus
12-10-2004, 03:32 AM
Sorry if this forum isn't for this kind of thing, but I'm trying to research the problem and figured I'd just post my problem ni here and give it a shot. Maybe someone's had the same issues before.
Ok, here's my problem: I have 2 60GB Maxtor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 via my Abit-NF7 S's onboard Raid controller. I've been noticing a bit of a lapse in HDD performance, so I decided to defrag. I didn't even both with the windows defragger and installed diskkeeper and tried that. The thing just stayed at 0% even after I left it on all night. Never got passed analyzing the drive. I assumed this was some sort of diskkeeper problem, so I uninstalled it and tried the windows default defragger. It basically does the same thing. I hit defrag and it goes to analyze, and ends up sitting there doing nothing. I've watch the process (I believe called dfrgsomething.exe) and it just sits there eating 99% CPU resources doing nothing. I've left this on overnight, and nothing, nodda.
I then went to try the scandisk program just for the hell of it and it said something about not having access to files that it needed, and telling me to restart, so I did that and it gives me the same thing everytime.
I've been reading in various forums and I seem to believe that this can be attributed to my HDDs cluster size being 16k instead of 4k (Which is windows default, I think). Someone seemed to be having problems defragging with a similar setup with a 16k cluster. I honestly can't remember what cluster I set at when I installed; was a long time ago. I'm not sure where to check that either.
I also went ahead and downloaded the newest drives for my raid controller, installed them but still the same stuff.
The HDD degredation isn't that bad, I can live without defragging my HDDs for the time being. Although I'd really like to find the solution to this problem for the future.
Thanks in advance, everyone.
Ok, here's my problem: I have 2 60GB Maxtor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 via my Abit-NF7 S's onboard Raid controller. I've been noticing a bit of a lapse in HDD performance, so I decided to defrag. I didn't even both with the windows defragger and installed diskkeeper and tried that. The thing just stayed at 0% even after I left it on all night. Never got passed analyzing the drive. I assumed this was some sort of diskkeeper problem, so I uninstalled it and tried the windows default defragger. It basically does the same thing. I hit defrag and it goes to analyze, and ends up sitting there doing nothing. I've watch the process (I believe called dfrgsomething.exe) and it just sits there eating 99% CPU resources doing nothing. I've left this on overnight, and nothing, nodda.
I then went to try the scandisk program just for the hell of it and it said something about not having access to files that it needed, and telling me to restart, so I did that and it gives me the same thing everytime.
I've been reading in various forums and I seem to believe that this can be attributed to my HDDs cluster size being 16k instead of 4k (Which is windows default, I think). Someone seemed to be having problems defragging with a similar setup with a 16k cluster. I honestly can't remember what cluster I set at when I installed; was a long time ago. I'm not sure where to check that either.
I also went ahead and downloaded the newest drives for my raid controller, installed them but still the same stuff.
The HDD degredation isn't that bad, I can live without defragging my HDDs for the time being. Although I'd really like to find the solution to this problem for the future.
Thanks in advance, everyone.