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Why would my defragment disc faeature keep freezing?

Asked by silky1 (1510points) March 27th, 2012

It is a scheduled task that I have programmed. Lately it just freezes when it is going to start.

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Lightlyseared's avatar

Is the hard drive nearly full?

Defragmenting requires a certain amount of free space to swap files around in.

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silky1's avatar

So how do I free up some space

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dabbler's avatar

Um, er, delete something ? And empty the trash if it’s that sort of file system.

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