Technical information

Technical information
O&O Defrag - 67
Syntax Description
/WAITKEY Waits for a keystroke before ending the command line program (once the operation has
ended).
Status notices and program output
Results logging of the defragmentation
O&O Defrag logs the start and stop times of defragmentation runs as well as any errors encountered. These are
recorded according to the systems’ own settings for application logging.
How to start the event viewer when running Windows:
l To open the Event Viewer, please go to the Control Panel of your computer and select Administrative
Tools/Event Viewer.
Notifications of boot time defragmentation
The chart below contains a list of all notifications possible during boot time defragmentation and their corresponding
explanations.
Output Type Explanation
Drive could not
be opened
ERROR The given drive could not be found by the system, or the file system is not sup-
ported.
File could not be
opened
ERROR
The given file could not be found, is encrypted or has been exclusively locked by
the system.
Not enough
space to move
ERROR Contiguous free space is required to move a file somewhere else on the disk, and
this amount of space must be at least as large as the file. Defragmentation cannot
take place because there is not enough free space available.
Could not be
moved
ERROR
The defragmentation failed because of problems with the file system. The file is frag-
mented.
MFT could not
be defrag-
mented
ERROR The defragmentation of the MFT failed because of problems with the file system. It
is still fragmented.
Not enough
space to move
the MFT
ERROR
In order to defragment the MFT, contiguous free space at least as large as the MFT
must be available. The defragmentation cannot take place because there is not
enough free space available.
Could not write
to partition
ERROR During the MFT defragmentation a file system error occurred which blocked writing
on the disk. The MFT has not been changed. The drive should be checked for
errors.
Attribute error in
the MFT. Please
start chkdsk.
ERROR
Erroneous entries in the MFT were found during the defragmentation. The drive
should be checked for errors.