Microsoft KB Archive/274106

= Error Message &quot;Disk Defragmenter Could Not Initialize&quot; =

Article ID: 274106

Article Last Modified on 3/1/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q274106



SYMPTOMS
When you attempt to analyze or defragment an NTFS volume using the Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter utility, you may receive the following error message:

Disk Defragmenter could not initialize

This error message does not occur when you analyze or defragment other FAT, FAT32, or NTFS volumes.



CAUSE
This issue occurs only on highly fragmented NTFS volumes whose Master File Table (MFT) is also highly fragmented.



RESOLUTION
To work around this issue, back up the data on the NTFS volume, and verify that the backup file contains all of the file data. Then reformat the NTFS volume and restore it from the backup file. When this procedure is complete, the Disk Defragmenter utility should run successfully against that volume.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: FRS NTFRS

Keywords: kbdefrag kbprb KB274106

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