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I have a Windows 7 laptop that I have been unable to defragment for the last several months.
When I try to invoke the defragmenter from the command line it says "The dirty bit is set on this volume". So I have tried to force it to defragment on the next reboot but that never happens.
When I try to invoke the defragmenter UI I get a dialog which says "Disk Defragmenter was scheduled using another program" and presents me with a "Remove settings" button which apparently has no effect.
I can't delete the scheduled task even when I run Task Scheduler as Administrator, I get a message that says "Transaction support within the specified resource manager is not started or was shut down due to an error"
Any suggestions on how to get the win7 defragmenter to run? I am aware that 3rd party defragmenter solutions exist.
Run a
chkdsk
to see if there's any disk/filesystem corruption. Then runSFC /scnanow
and see if that repairs any missing/corrupted system files. – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2014-08-29T15:30:39.377