mkengel said:
About 18% of my harddisk are used. These 18% were heavily fragmented -
so I run the WinXP defragmentation tool.
During this defragmentation, a block of files were moved to the middle
of the harddisk.
How can I move them back to make one block with the rest ?
I need the space for a second partition.
Thank you
Michael
Go ahead and update your backups, then make your partition setups as you
wish. All will go well as long as you're using a reputable and reliable
tool for the effort.
What you see in the graphic representation of defraggers is not real;
it's just a kind of approximation and doesn't really tell you a lot w/r
to where something might actually reside in physical space: They are a
logical representation of it.
A hard drive is comprised of several platters and sets of read/write
heads, one per platter, how many platters depending on the size of the
drive. So the data is really stored in a 3-D manner on all 3 axis; x,
y, and z. That's not very easy to represent on a 2-D screen and
wouldn't be very meaningful. The logical representation however is much
more meaningful but not accurate at all. .
Any necessary management will be done by the partitioning program.
If it's not, get a better program. That file is probably a page file or
restore points or any of several other possibilities but don't worry
about it. The partition manager will take care of making the space it
needs in the proper places.
BTW, you were still correct to defrag before starting this effort; it
does indeed make things easier and is sometimes a necessity.
HTH,
Twayne
