HD seems to be always fragmented

[Jokersvirus]

About 4 to 5 days ago I analysed my hard-drive to see how well it was doing come to my surprise 41% of my entire HD was fragged. Confused I ran the defrag and it took about 2 and half days to run it which was odd but I let it do its job after it was done it dropped from 41% to 16% I thought that was pretty good so I left it alone and today I checked to see if it was ok and to my surprise again it was up to 35% fragged.

Im starting to think my HD is either getting old, my defrag program isnt working anymore, Defraggler, or I have sometype of virus on my computer, yet I ran a complete system scan with Norton and a quick scan with Panda cloud antivirus.

Any suggestions cause I am not sure anymore

[LiNuX]

Why not use the defragmenter that comes with windows?

[Jokersvirus]

I am right now I asked my dad and he said to give it a try and I am

[XnewxskinX]

Do you delete a lot of stuff on an average day? I have to defrag my other computer because of how my studio is set up, and deleting things a lot.

[Jokersvirus]

on an average day I do not but during the weekend when im recording footage i will delete upwards of 10gb of stuff. so during the weekend I would delete 30gbs over the weekend.

I re installed MyDefrag, one of my favorite utilities, and according to it what is causing the most fragmentation on my system is my Norton 360 back up files.

[Ilyich Valken]

most fragmentation on my system is my Norton 360 back up files.

Wouldn't surprise me. Like I've said, Norton is trash.

The deleting stuff could be a problem too.

[Jokersvirus]

Well I trust norton it works I just dont enjoy the backup since i have digital lifeboat. When I disable back up it flashes "OMFG SOMETHING DISABLED!"

[Jayhmmz]

If it does turn out to be a direct problem with Norton, and something that you can't solve within the program, then I'd suggest using Avast Anti-virus. It's an amazing free anti-virus that's better than a lot of paid-for protection. It also has the option to upgrade to a licensed version of the program, but to be honest it's really not necessary, as it's amazing as it is.

**edit - You could temporarily uninstall Norton and replace it with Avast for a trial run, to see if the fragmentation problem disappears.

[Jokersvirus]

avast wont work on my computer it doesnt scan properly and does nothing.

[Jayhmmz]

avast wont work on my computer it doesnt scan properly and does nothing.

Damn... that ain't a good mix for an anti-virus :P

[Jokersvirus]

no, no it is not lol