I have a 100gb drive c=20gb (FAT32) , d= 80mb (NTFS). My question relates
to the C partition.
Often when I analyze the drive - it's not that badly defragmented - but the
files are scattered everywhere with lots of "wasted space". After running
diskeeper 6 defrag program , drive C looks good again. (Lets say that all
looks contiguous and takes up exactly 3 rows on the screen with the
directories consolidated at the top left of screen)
After the defrag, I moved some data (~45mb) from D to C to test it and see
that the directories are scattered. The files are fragmented, and they are
scattered - a few files on the 5th row, a few on the 6th row etc - Analyze
shows them as RED - why ? How to prevent ?
With all the current data consolidated, why doesn't this data get written
contiguously ... just start writing .. until done ? Is it the allocation
table ? Is there something that I should do right after defrag ? (such as
run program xyz to erase the empty sectors/clusters to have it "forget"
which sectors to use.)
I'm not trying to get "really into this" - just trying to prevent future
defragmentation so quickly.
Any insight / URL's with the info ? ( I did generic web search and did try
Diskeeper - Executive software - my version is 'old' so no help.)
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