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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SaggyMaggyPoo" data-source="post: 402816" data-attributes="member: 44625">I have a 1.8tb external hard drive that I defragged using Advance System Care's Smart Defrag 3.I re-analyzed the drive to check the result as it completed overnight. The disc is still 21% fragmented.I also analyzed the drive using CCleaner's Defraggler, which shows 27% fragmentation.I ran Windows' own defrag which shows 0% fragmentation of this drive.Question 1: According to Smart Defrag and Defraggler there are 4 fragmented files, all of which are System Images. So am I right in assuming that these files can not be defragged (and that I should have done all my cleaning up before I made the Images)?I had deleted one of the fragmented files and used Advanced System Care's facility to shred all files in the recycle bin. But this file is still showing on the list of fragmented files so I think it was not actually deleted. I usually get a message if I am trying to delete something that is too big (this is around 70gb) but in this case I didn't.I can see the file path in the results of the defrag analysis but I can't find the file through Search. I would really like to get rid of it given it is so big.Question 2: how can I find and delete this file? Would using the Disc Clean utility do the job?Question 3: I am likely to need to delete large System Image files in the future. What is the best way to do this without losing them in the ether like I did this time?Thank you</blockquote>

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