Hi there,

i'm trying to defrag drives formatted with 32k blocks, but
did not succeed so far as Windows 2000 is unable to do
this. Even 3rd party software (e.g. diskeeper)will not do
the job. An error occurs saying the block-size is too big
and should be only 4k.
Only solution should be to the delete the partition and
recreate it with 4k blocks, but that would to long because
i have to backup and restore al data within one day.
Anyone got an alternate solution???

Help is appreciated a lot.

BrainLess

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:51:17 -0800, "BrainLess" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>i'm trying to defrag drives formatted with 32k blocks, but
>did not succeed so far as Windows 2000 is unable to do
>this. Even 3rd party software (e.g. diskeeper)will not do
>the job. An error occurs saying the block-size is too big
>and should be only 4k.
>Only solution should be to the delete the partition and
>recreate it with 4k blocks, but that would to long because
>i have to backup and restore al data within one day.
>Anyone got an alternate solution???
>
>Help is appreciated a lot.
>
>BrainLess

I think all the commercial products now use the MS defrag api so they
won't work on clusters that size. But IIRC, the older version of Norton
Speeddisk (from 2002?) was still using their proprietary api and could do
it. I could be wrong. I'd do a test to confirm this but my machines are
all in use right now.

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BrainLess wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> i'm trying to defrag drives formatted with 32k blocks, but
> did not succeed so far as Windows 2000 is unable to do
> this. Even 3rd party software (e.g. diskeeper)will not do
> the job. An error occurs saying the block-size is too big
> and should be only 4k.
> Only solution should be to the delete the partition and
> recreate it with 4k blocks, but that would to long because
> i have to backup and restore al data within one day.
> Anyone got an alternate solution???
>
> Help is appreciated a lot.
>
> BrainLess

http://www.partition-manager.com/hom...l/features.htm