Hi,

I'm technically oriented, but cannot understand why W2K defrag doesn't work
in this situation....

I have a 80GB USB drive with 45GB free space. This is a backup drive, so
it's only written to a few times a day.
It was very close to full at one stage, but I removed a whole bunch of
stuff.

I've run defrag on the drive about 4 times and these files don't defrag:

Fragments File Size Files that did not defragment
5,264 4,442 MB \Backups\AllDataOnSinglemaltDiff.bkf
5,602 2,047 MB \Backups\merlot.tgz
214 437 MB \Backups\Source050612.bkf
175 410 MB \MerlotDataBackups\MerlotData050601.tgz.gpg
plus a whole bunch of files with only a few fragments and others with 100+
fragments.

Why doesn't defrag do its job? Is it just buggy? A long search on the net
certainly says that it's a limited product, but no-one has specifically
mentioned bugs like this.

Free space fragmentation is said to be 0%, so I could just copy these files
and remove the old ones. That should defrag them. But that's what the
defrag utility should be doing!

tia,
RR

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:17:58 GMT, "RR"
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>I'm technically oriented, but cannot understand why W2K defrag doesn't work
>in this situation....

It's simple enough. M$ has us all by short and curlies!