I cannot defragment (C) as I only have 4% free space left on the disk? I have tried to Optimize with Norton but it fails to complete. Any ideas? Thanks1 person needs an answerI do too

Changing tools will not resolve your problem. Your problem is lack of free HDD space, so you need to make some room by deleting or moving stuff.If you are running low on disk space the Windows defragmenter may have difficulty defragmenting your HDD. The lack of free space is not helping your situation and a defrag may help slightly, but the chances are high that you need to look in some other places for performance issues too.If you have any Norton products installed, I would start there. Norton products (depending on what you chose to install) are notorious consumers of CPU and memory that you would probably want to be used on more pleasurable things - and the protection is only marginal. I really don't like it at all, but some folks adore it.My standard copy/paste about achieving zero fragmented files:XP needs 15% of the total HDD capacity to run properly (you would get an informative message if you don't have enough room).The XP defragmenter cannot defrag files that are in use (like the registry files, event logs, pagefile.sys, etc), so they may show up as fragmented files in the defrag report. These files must be defragmented before XP loads up all the way and starts to use those files.On a healthy system it is certainly possible to have zero fragmented files (according to the XP report) by using PageDefrag. It does not always mean you will suddenly see more free space on your HDD though, so don't let your expectations exceed reality when you get to zero defragmented files and still have no more free space.You can read about and download PageDefrag download here:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspxHere is an example of such a report showing zero fragmented files I just ran on my system:Defrag ResultsVolume (C:) Volume size = 37.26 GB Cluster size = 4 KB Used space = 12.70 GB Free space = 24.56 GB Percent free space = 39 %Volume fragmentation Total fragmentation = 0 % File fragmentation = 0 % Free space fragmentation = 0 %File fragmentation Total fragmented files = 0 Total excess fragments = 0 Average fragments per file = 0.00Pagefile fragmentation Pagefile size = 1536 MB Total fragments = 0Folder fragmentation Total folders = 3,918 Fragmented folders = 0 Excess folder fragments = 0Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation Total MFT size = 94 MB MFT record count = 31,444 Percent MFT in use = 12 % Total MFT fragments = 0--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fragments File Size Files that cannot be defragmentedNoneDo you really think suggestions that begin with the words try, might or maybe are going to be helpful?I need YOUR votes and points for helpful replies and Propose as Answers. I am saving up for a pony!