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VBScript to Defragment the Hard Drive

i wrote this script to defrag all drives on a pc

''''defrag_all2.vbs ''''Defrags all hard disks - Can be run as a Scheduled Task ''''Modified to create an error log and display it ''''Alex - 4/13/2004

Option Explicit

Dim WshShell, fso, d, dc, ErrStr(), Return, X, A(), MyFile, I, MyBox, Drive

Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") X = 0

   Set dc = fso.Drives For Each d in DC  If d.DriveType = 2 Then     X = X + 1

'Determine drive letter of first fixed disk 'This is the drive that the error report will be placed on   If X = 1 Then      Drive = d   End If  End If Next

ReDim A(X) ReDim ErrStr(X)

X = 0 For Each d in dc       If d.DriveType = 2 Then       X = X + 1       Return = WshShell.Run("defrag " & d & " -f", 1, TRUE)

'Determine the Error code returned by Defrag for the current drive and save it If return = 0 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag completed successfully" & vbCRLF elseif return = 1 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & " (defrag was cancelled manually) " & vbCRLF elseif return = 2 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & " (there was a command line error. Check your command line for valid switches and drives)" & vbCRLF elseif return = 3 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & " (there was an unknown error)" & vbCRLF elseif return = 4 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & " (defrag could not run due to insufficient memory resources)" & vbCRLF   'errorlevel 5 is not currently used elseif return = 5 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & " (general error)" & vbCRLF elseif return = 6 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & "(System error: either the account used to run defrag is not an administrator, there is a problem loading the resource DLL, or a defrag engine could not be accessed. Check for proper user permissions and run Sfc.exe to validate system files)" & vbCRLF elseif return = 7 then   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with error level " & return & " (There is not enough free space on the drive. Defrag needs 15% free space to run on a volume)" & vbCRLF else   ErrStr(x) = ErrStr(x) &  "Drive " & d & " Defrag aborted with an unknown error level: " & return & vbCRLF end if

       End If    Next

'Create the Error Report in the root of the first fixed disk. Set MyFile = fso.OpenTextFile(Drive & "\defragreport.txt", 2, True) MyFile.WriteLine(Date) & vbCRLF MyFile.WriteLine(Time) & vbCRLF    For I = 1 to X       MyFile.WriteLine(ErrStr(I))    Next    MyFile.Close

Return = WshShell.Run(Drive & "\defragreport.txt",3,True)

Set WshShell = Nothing Set fso = Nothing


Comments

  • Windows 7 does this automatically once a week. - SMal.tmcc 11 years ago
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