Defragmentation Procedure on Windows 7

Parts and Materials Required

• None

Time Required

• 30 minutes (may take more or less time dependent on the size of the PC hard drive and the degree of fragmentation of that hard drive).

Procedure

1. From the FSE Shield, select Command Prompt.
2. Enter Services.msc in the Command Prompt window.
3. In the new window that appears, scroll down to Disk Defragmenter.

   

4. Defragmentation will be disabled. Right-click the text that reads Disabled and select Properties from the drop-down list.

   

5. From the Disk Defragmenter Properties pop-up, change Startup type from Disabled to Manual and click Apply.

   

6. You can now run defragmentation.
7. You can follow the procedures in Defragmenting the Panther System PC. Or you can run defragmentation from the already open Command Prompt window using the following steps:
   1. At the Command Prompt, enter: defrag c: /u ("u" allows you to see the progress of the defragmentation process on the display).

      

      Note—If Defragmentation will not run, restart the PC, repeat steps 1 through 7, and you should then be able to run defragmentation.

   2. The defragmentation process is automatically performed. The process will first do an analysis of the hard drive.

      

   3. When the analysis is complete, defragmentation begins and proceeds through multiple passes as noted on the display. The larger the hard drive and/or the greater the degree of fragmentation, the longer defragmentation will take.

      

   4. When the process is complete, the message "The operation completed successfully" will be displayed.

      

8. Once Defragmentation is completed, disable the Disk Defragmentation Service:
   1. Starting from Step 1 in this procedure, repeat steps 1 through 4.
   2. At Step 5 change Startup Type: from Manual to Disabled and click Apply.

Verification

1. As per Step 7d:

   When the defragmentation is complete, the message "The operation completed successfully" will be displayed.