A green unmovable bar has shifted from left to right in disk defragmenter.
Will this pose a problem? How do I readjust it? This is Windows XP, 32 bit,
running on a Samsung.
In this excerpt from
Answercast #100 I look at how unmovable files are displayed in Disk
Defragmenter, it’s nothing to worry about.
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Green bar in disk defragmenter
So the short answer is – I’m surprised that green bar moved. My guess is
that it actually didn’t move on your hard drive.
What that green area means is that the files it represents are files that
cannot be moved.
Unmovable files
Now it’s possible that you’ve changed a partition on your system, or you’re
looking at a different disk than you originally were, or perhaps you’ve
restored an image from backup. There are many reasons where the green
“unmovable files” can kind-of be moved.
The reality is there’s nothing wrong with them being there. There’s no
reason to move them either. Leave them there.
Defragment the disk
If you want to, you can defrag them. I have an article on defragmenting the
system files that are typically unmovable. It requires a separate utility that
actually causes the defragmentation to occur before Windows boots.
But in general, the green portion displays what’s happening when
defragmentation is happening. It simply means that the files that it represents
are files that the defragmenter can’t move. And there’s nothing wrong with
that.
(Transcript lightly edited for readability.)
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