Used Windows 2000 Pro defragmenter to defragment NTFS external drive. Defragged fine. However, session status in defragmenter control panel for that drive remains as "defragmented" and defragmenter won't defragment again. When I select defragment, immediate message "defragmentation complete"

Have disconnected dirve, have rebooted, but session status remains same - "defragmented".

Any suggestions to resolve?

P.S. New poster - don't know if this is right place for this topic.

I may be wrong here and someone please correct me if I am but I do not see any problem here. Session status says "defragmented" because it's been defragged.
If it said fragmented all the time then I'd see a problem. That is why it completes right away because there is nothing for it to do.

Click 'Analyze' the view the report, if the Average Fragments Per File number is below 1.05 or 1.04 there is really no need to defrag the drive.

Cheers
Rob

Well, i suppose he just wants to defrag just the same

In reply to MrPink.

I think blueshark is misinterpreting what the session status defragmented means.

You can not defrag a defragmented drive anymore than you can turn on something that is already on. You can press the on switch as many times as you like but if it was not off to begin with your wasting your time.

Thanks for responses....figured it out.

When I defraged the local drive C, the "defragmented" lock out on the external drive reset to NTFS and situation normal

This was first defrag on this drive - still learning about it. Didn't want to defrag again immediately, just wanted to be able to defrag again when needed. but was locked out. I really don't have a defrag fetish!

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