On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 11:29, Örn Hansen wrote:
Further problem with defragmentation in Microsoft Windows ...Is that it only makes sure that each file has it's succeeding part, located on a sector that comes after, rather than before in a logical order. This does not mean, that parts will be moved to the beginning of the disk and packed there. And that was also the case, it didn't.
True - MS Windows won't defrag that way, unless you trick it into doing so. I've done it by making a second bootable MS Windows partition (usually both partitions were Win2k, if it matters). Either partition, when booted, could be used to defrag the other, non-running partition. I did it to be able to make a clean and defragged image backup of the non-running partition. It worked fine! HTH... // Russ Bates // Redmond, WA, USA