Fixing XP Defrag Issue on Slave Drive

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The discussion centers on an issue with running disk defragmentation on a slave drive in Windows XP, specifically when using EIDE drives configured as master and slave. The user experiences a blue screen of death (BSOD) upon attempting to analyze or defrag the 80 GB slave drive, despite confirming proper jumper settings and drive health with a Western Digital monitoring tool. The conversation highlights that fragmentation is less critical for NTFS-formatted drives, suggesting that the user's concern may stem more from a desire for system cleanliness rather than performance enhancement.

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On my home PC running XP, I have two hard drives. Nothing special, EIDE, set up as master and slave. A 12 GB and an 80 GB. Both drives work perfectly fine in normal operation. The problem I have is that I can not run defrag on the slave drive. As soon as I press the "anylize" or "Defrag" buttons, the blue screen of death pops up for a split second and the machine immediately reboots.

I have checked and double checked the drive's jumper settings and cable hook up. I have DL'd a quick monitor program to check the drive's health from Western Digital and it says everything's peachy.

Has anyone ever had this problem? Any pointers (other than ditching Windows)?

Thanks.
 
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Why is it so important for you to defrag this drive? Do you feel you're going to get a huge performance boost? If the drive is formatted ntfs, fragmentation isn't going to be a huge problem.
 
I use it simply as a house cleaning tool every once in a while. It's no big deal really.

To be honest, right now it drives me crazy only because I know something is "wrong," not that it is causing me technical problems.
 

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