Defrag consolidate free space

[Tony]

I have run defrag from the command line, and from computer
management several times. The report says that the disk
has 5% fragmentation and 11% file fragmentation, and 35%
free space with 0% free space fragmentation. However when
I look at the graphic in the computer management defrag
the free space is broken up all over the drive. In
attempting to create a contiguous placeholder file in
preparation for converting the drive to NTFS, I'm
repeatedly told there is not enough free space. Is there
a way to cause defrag to consolidate the free space. Or
do I need to use a 3rd party app?

Thanks

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Try the following suggestions:

Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310312&Product=winxp

How to Perform Disk Error Checking in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315265&Product=winxp

HOW TO: Analyze and Defragment a Disk in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305781&Product=winxp

Perfeck Disk
http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/more_info.cfm

Try out PerfectDisk® free, for 30-days
http://www.raxco.com/products/downloadit/perfectdisk2000_download.cfm


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I have run defrag from the command line, and from computer
| management several times. The report says that the disk
| has 5% fragmentation and 11% file fragmentation, and 35%
| free space with 0% free space fragmentation. However when
| I look at the graphic in the computer management defrag
| the free space is broken up all over the drive. In
| attempting to create a contiguous placeholder file in
| preparation for converting the drive to NTFS, I'm
| repeatedly told there is not enough free space. Is there
| a way to cause defrag to consolidate the free space. Or
| do I need to use a 3rd party app?
|
| Thanks

 

[Tony]

I've been using PerfectDisk to attempt to consolidate the
free space on my 80G drive. It's done pretty well. There
are several backup files that it seems to have trouble
moving/defragging. Even so, I'm up to (based on
PerfectDisk's report) 12.95G of contiguous free space.
Still, when using the command: [fsutil file createnew
c:\mftspace.txt 9316250000] in the command window, I'm
told there isn't enough free space. Even a dir command
shows 34G total free space. What am I missing?

Thanks, again