Following up:
very interesting.....
1) I _DO_ have the advanced setting set to "let PD manage"
2) my volume config: E: - system disk (the 1 w/ boot.ini; pagefile too)
F: - boot disk (the one w/ \windows)
G: - data disk (I install most Programs here,
rather than on F:\Programs...)
All on the same drive, a SATA Raid 0 setup.
3) layout.ini refs many files from F:, and from G:, as expected since
many of my programs live on G: rather than F:
4) PD Analyze of F: shows the light-purple files, all moved to the front
- just great, and as expected.
PD Analyze of G: shows no light-purple files at all. "Files" tab
shows count of "boot" files as 0. NOT what I'd expect.
Goto Advanced setting, change "let PD manage" to "disable", re-analyze
G: and now the light-purple files show up, "Files" tab says there are
about 700 of them; they are scattered all about. But defrag it and it
doesn't move them (again, as expected since I disabled PD's management of
them). Recheck "Let PD Manage", and light-purples go away again. So, I
can't get it to move them to the front of the disk, nor even consolidate
them.
Weird!
I tried doing a standard XP "defrag g: -b", and it _TOO_ did nothing.
[I swear it used to, by my memory may be affected by all the halfling weed
over the years]. Apparently drive G: is not "eligable" for boot
optimizing, and PD "knows" this (presumably by calling something in XP).
I don't know why, and I'm tired! Time for some Ol' Tobby, XP is getting
heavy, very heavy.... and my brain hurts too!
I may remove and reinstall PD, but frankly I don't expect that to
resolve anything. My system DOES work, and I don't feel like "fixing" it
tonight. And it's plenty fast, I doubt "fixing" it would actually result
in any real improvment. But it is a mystery...
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So, you guys are saying that your non-system partitions show
light-purple files all moved to the front, huh?
BTW, I have PD 7 build 31
Thanks for listening...