Iv'e tried a few applications and since the last few days, aside from the windows defrag utlity, none them defrag, they just don't do anything.......

Some of them reckon the MFT needs to be defragged, but there in-built support for defragging just as windows starts up, always fails, it just sits there on a loading screen and does bugger all......

This used to never be a problem on previous windows xp installs, so this particular configuration must be borked somehow.

Does anyone know of a utility that can defrag the MFT/PageFile etc on boot?, like the old boot from floppy software, google doesn't seem to be yeilding much unless I'm using the wrong keywords.

Some games just today have started crashing on me randomly now all of a sudden also, only a few though which is a bit annoying, I think my drives have gone a little effed on me.

Any help is much appreciated. I really need a new computer setup but money is tight and finding work is a pain at the moment.

Try O & O Defrag - I've been using it over a long time. It does all you want plus more... of course, it's a licensed tool, but worth every penny

You can get it from: http://www.oo-software.com/en/

Yeah I know someone who has a licensed version, it actually works very well from what I saw and the comments I have heard but it seems all defrag software fails to perform the windows safe method of defragging at boot, for anything.

All I see is a blank image with Windows or some such written on it before the login screen comes up and it just freezes there.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysintern...PageDefrag.mspx

or if you can trialware it, Diskeeper can expand and defrag MFTs and Pagefiles.

This post has been edited by Grafitti: Dec 29 2006, 04:32 PM

You can defrag your page files :s?

I never knew that is even possible.

Heck, I dunno even if I can fsck my swap partition in Linux :s

xboxrulz

My all time favorite is Diskkeeper.

It sounds like you may have other problems not relating to a fragmentation problem. A fragmented hard drive will slow performance but it should not cause any crashes. Since you mentioned you installed new games and that’s when the crashes started, two things come to mind. The first is the tried and true driver problems. Perhaps the newer games are crapping out on an old driver. The second is heat. I have found that the cause of many random reboots is over heated components. This could be either the video card or CPU. You may want to check this if you have your computer in an enclosed area or maybe just open the case and see if the problems go away.

Second on the list can be bad RAM or a failing hard drive. RAM is one of the absolutely hardest things to check for unless you have specialized equipment so I would save that for last. Microsoft also has a utility at http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp that runs a RAM test. The second possibility is a failing hard drive. There are several applications that will check this (not least of which is the disk that came with the hard drive) but I am a vivid supporter of SpinRite by GRC which can be found at http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm.

I hope this leads you to investigate other items as I doubt that pagefile fragmentation is your real problem.

this computer is about a year old, the ram and everythign is all the same so unless it's suddenly wanting to die on me (both sticks).

The computer itself hasn't been crashing (although it occasionaly does freeze up when I try to load up the list of available drives, but quite rare).

It's some of the games themselves that started crashing, just closing themselves which could be a bug, it's just that they were rather random (as they shutdown on things I have done in places I have done them a 100 times before).

Heat is a possibility, although I hope not as there isn't much I can do about it for now lol.

Replying to Chesso

This sounds like heat or power related. (I am assuming you haven't done any overclocking ;) ) Have you popped the cover & checked to see if dust bunnies have taken up residence in the CPU heat sink cooling fan?

-reply by phi1l

MFT usage is currently 99% of total MFT size.
Now how can I face this problem.
Please send solution.
Can I resize the MFT or Defragment the MFT.

-question by Mohsin