I am looking for a defrag program that will defrag two 32 to 35 GB files on
a 75 GB drive.

I use these to files for backup. They become badly fragged over time. I
usually have a minimum of 5% free space on this drive.

I have tried the built-in W2K defragger and the O&O Defrag programs without
success.

This is probably about the toughest defrag case.

The only solution I have now is to delete both backup files and start over -
not an ideal solution.

I even tried deleting one of the large files and with 55% free space neither
program would defrag the remaining file.

Other than this case I like the O&O Defrag v6.5.

Any suggestions appreciated.

--
Tom Denbo

Doesnt Defrag require at least 15% free space to function?

"Tom Denbo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:dOQkc.1816$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am looking for a defrag program that will defrag two 32 to 35 GB files
on
> a 75 GB drive.
>
> I use these to files for backup. They become badly fragged over time. I
> usually have a minimum of 5% free space on this drive.
>
> I have tried the built-in W2K defragger and the O&O Defrag programs
without
> success.
>
> This is probably about the toughest defrag case.
>
> The only solution I have now is to delete both backup files and start
over -
> not an ideal solution.
>
> I even tried deleting one of the large files and with 55% free space
neither
> program would defrag the remaining file.
>
> Other than this case I like the O&O Defrag v6.5.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> --
> Tom Denbo
>
>

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
DL <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Doesnt Defrag require at least 15% free space to function?
>
>"Tom Denbo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:dOQkc.1816$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I am looking for a defrag program that will defrag two 32 to 35 GB files
>on
>> a 75 GB drive.
>>
>> I use these to files for backup. They become badly fragged over time. I
>> usually have a minimum of 5% free space on this drive.
>>
>> I have tried the built-in W2K defragger and the O&O Defrag programs
>without
>> success.
>>
>> This is probably about the toughest defrag case.
>>
>> The only solution I have now is to delete both backup files and start
>over -
>> not an ideal solution.
>>
>> I even tried deleting one of the large files and with 55% free space
>neither
>> program would defrag the remaining file.
>>
>> Other than this case I like the O&O Defrag v6.5.
>>


Assuming you've got NTFS an file system, the compression feature can buy
you some (or lots) of space. Depending on what backup software you use
the backup savesets are not compressed.

In the days of 4GB desktop drives I would set compression for the
whole C drive, while it was running. It skipped pagefile
but squeezed everything else. never caused a problem.

A standalone boot is called for after a C drive compress.

I've even run an Oracle server with the data files on a compressed
folder. It didn't barf, but there are lots of reasons not to do this
in a real-world situation.


--
Al Dykes
-----------
adykes at p a n i x . c o m

I'm not supposed to recommend 3rd party software, but if you google for
something like "windows single file defrag" you'll find something that ought
to do the trick.
--
Drew Cooper [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Tom Denbo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:dOQkc.1816$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I am looking for a defrag program that will defrag two 32 to 35 GB files
on
> a 75 GB drive.
>
> I use these to files for backup. They become badly fragged over time. I
> usually have a minimum of 5% free space on this drive.
>
> I have tried the built-in W2K defragger and the O&O Defrag programs
without
> success.
>
> This is probably about the toughest defrag case.
>
> The only solution I have now is to delete both backup files and start
over -
> not an ideal solution.
>
> I even tried deleting one of the large files and with 55% free space
neither
> program would defrag the remaining file.
>
> Other than this case I like the O&O Defrag v6.5.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> --
> Tom Denbo
>
>

Thanks for the tip. I used 'contig.exe' and even it had trouble defragging
my two large files. One of the problems is that most of the 'free space' on
my drive is in the MFT. Something I found out using Perfect Disk. No
wonder I had problems defragging these files!

I am happy to find the 'stats' command in PD that tells me how much space is
really usable.

Any other utilities that show free MFT vs. free files space?
--
Tom Denbo

"Drew Cooper [MSFT]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm not supposed to recommend 3rd party software, but if you google for
> something like "windows single file defrag" you'll find something that
ought
> to do the trick.
> --
> Drew Cooper [MSFT]
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>
>
> "Tom Denbo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:dOQkc.1816$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I am looking for a defrag program that will defrag two 32 to 35 GB files
> on
> > a 75 GB drive.
> >
> > I use these to files for backup. They become badly fragged over time.
I
> > usually have a minimum of 5% free space on this drive.
> >
> > I have tried the built-in W2K defragger and the O&O Defrag programs
> without
> > success.
> >
> > This is probably about the toughest defrag case.
> >
> > The only solution I have now is to delete both backup files and start
> over -
> > not an ideal solution.
> >
> > I even tried deleting one of the large files and with 55% free space
> neither
> > program would defrag the remaining file.
> >
> > Other than this case I like the O&O Defrag v6.5.
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated.
> >
> > --
> > Tom Denbo
> >
> >
>
>