Take a guess what percentage free space would you guess is available on this drive? This is the server of a client of mine.

  • .3%
  • 3%
  • 13%
  • 37%

Ok, here's math: It is a 57gb partition with 21gb free. That's right. You can have a defrag graph like that and have 37% free space available on the drive! Unbelievable. I have tried more options than I care to relate, but here are the major ones:

  1. Removed the page file completely. This box has 4gb memory, so I think it can manage.
  2. Moved the top 25 most fragmented files identified by defrag completely off of the system.
  3. Uncompressed the drive. Yea, I know, never ever use compression. It wasn't me.
  4. Defrag with windows scheduler about 45 times.
  5. Defrag for five days with Diskeeper, both continuous, and the 'comprehensive'. It claimed to have removed over 100k fragments, but I sure don't see any evidence.

There is nothing in the recycle bin, and sql and other major services are stopped. At this point it seems to me the only course is to completely format and rebuild the os (win2k btw..). Any ideas? Please...

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