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XP need more contiguous space in defrag
I need to free up more contiguous free space on my hard drive.
Diskeeper lite and windows XP defrag make the files contiguous, but they don't compact the files and free up more contiguous free space. Older versions of windows defrag would defragment the files and put them together freeing up the end of the drive as one large contiguous free space. I hope I am describing it correctly. I have several large data files in the 2-9gig size and need to have them in one contiguous space to increase my hard drive read speed. Although the standard defrag programs defrag the files, they leave lots of odd sized and sometimes small free space between files. Is there a program that can compact the files and open free space. Thanks Tom |
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On 17 May 2005 13:27:00 -0700, "geo" wrote:
Is there a program that can compact the files and open free space. It's probably not what you want but I solved the same problem by copying the files to an empty hard disc. The copies were contiguous. -- Steve Wolstenholme Neural Planner Software EasyNN-plus. The easy way to build neural networks. http://www.easynn.com |
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What I have done so far was to move the three large files to another
drive, defrag, copy one file, defrag(it was now not fragmented), copy another file, defrag, and then the same with the last. There was not enough contiguous free space to defrag the last file, so I got two out of three. I could probably get a new drive, copy the entire drive using something like Maxblast for a maxtor drive and I think it would copy one file at a time and would therefore be contiguous. There must be a program out there that does what I want. Thanks for your help. Tom |
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What I have done so far was to move the three large files to another
drive, defrag, copy one file, defrag(it was now not fragmented), copy another file, defrag, and then the same with the last. There was not enough contiguous free space to defrag the last file, so I got two out of three. I could probably get a new drive, copy the entire drive using something like Maxblast for a maxtor drive and I think it would copy one file at a time and would therefore be contiguous. There must be a program out there that does what I want. Thanks for your help. Tom |
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In article .com,
geo wrote: What I have done so far was to move the three large files to another drive, defrag, copy one file, defrag(it was now not fragmented), copy another file, defrag, and then the same with the last. There was not enough contiguous free space to defrag the last file, so I got two out of three. I could probably get a new drive, copy the entire drive using something like Maxblast for a maxtor drive and I think it would copy one file at a time and would therefore be contiguous. There must be a program out there that does what I want. Thanks for your help. Tom Someone edited out the OP so this may already have been mentioned. I suggest downloading the eval version of Raxco Perfect disk and trying it. Much better than the default defrag in XP. I had problems defragging disks with vary large files (up to 50 GB) and the latest version of PD had a fix that solved the problem. (no relationship to Raxco other that being vsery happy with their products for many years.) -- a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m Don't blame me. I voted for Gore. |
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