Vista - Defragging

I have tried many times to Defrag my pc. I'm running Vista Home Basic 32.
No matter how many times I defrag, I get anywhere between 45 and 65 % defragged still at the end of the scan.
I have also used Defraggler that shows the colored chart in red where it is fragmented.
After running that program, it still shows a "sea of red".
Is this normal?
When I run PC Pitstop, it recommends that I do a defrag because it shows up always
as needing it.

Could use some knowledge here.
thanks

Hello bbqbrisket, welcome to Vista Forums!


It's not as important as it once was to defrag the HDD, if you have plenty of free space available for use then I would just let Vista handle it all on its own and not worry about what others say.

















Later Ted

I am very curious as to why it is always around 50% fragmented after defrag.
MY real question is whether or not that is normal.

thank you for the input

Vista places some parts of the OS like the Master File Table (MFT) in the center of the HDD sometime, which has been known to cause issues like this; not a real problem in most cases.




















Later Ted