XP Disk defragmenter

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Jim Hawkins

When the defragmenter has defragged all the files it can, it proceeds to do
'compacting files..' but stops well before all the 'whitespace' has
defragged.
If the defragmenter is run consecutively repeatedly, will it eventually
complete the compacting (i.e. defrag all the 'whitespace') ?

Jim Hawkins
 
you mean the progress bar at the bottom of the screen? yes thats
completly normal, well it does it on all of my computers anyway, merry
christmas!!!
 
Jim

Open Disk Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and
click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents
Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it
is more informative.


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Hope this helps.

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Jim Hawkins wrote:
> When the defragmenter has defragged all the files it can, it proceeds
> to do 'compacting files..' but stops well before all the 'whitespace'
> has defragged.
> If the defragmenter is run consecutively repeatedly, will it
> eventually complete the compacting (i.e. defrag all the 'whitespace')
> ?
> Jim Hawkins
 
"Jim Hawkins" <jimhawkins@manx.net> wrote:

> When the defragmenter has defragged all the files it can, it proceeds
> to do 'compacting files..' but stops well before all the 'whitespace'
> has defragged.

That's normal.

> If the defragmenter is run consecutively repeatedly, will it eventually
> complete the compacting (i.e. defrag all the 'whitespace') ?

That target doesn't make sense. White areas on an NTFS volume might also
represent the MFT zone.

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d-d
 
XP defragmenter doesn't defrag empty disk space.

Jim Hawkins wrote:

> When the defragmenter has defragged all the files it can, it proceeds to do
> 'compacting files..' but stops well before all the 'whitespace' has
> defragged.
> If the defragmenter is run consecutively repeatedly, will it eventually
> complete the compacting (i.e. defrag all the 'whitespace') ?
>
> Jim Hawkins
>
>
>
 
Yeah, the built-in XP defragmenter is not very good at consolidating
free space, that's why you see a lot of white areas after a XP defrag.
That said, there is limited benefit in full free space consolidation
because if the 'compacted' files are modified, you're going to have
fragmentation again because the files have no space to grow.

Consolidation of free space into a few 'chunks' is about as beneficial
as it
would be in terms of resources-expended-to-benefit-obtained ratio,
IMHO.




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sareth
 
> "Jim Hawkins" <jimhawkins@manx.net> wrote:
>> If the defragmenter is run consecutively repeatedly, will it eventually
>> complete the compacting (i.e. defrag all the 'whitespace') ?


No. But I find that if the defragmenter is run from an OS
on another HD, the defragmenting goes a little further than if
the defragmenter was defragging its own HD. After 2 or 3
runs, though, the files are about as compact as the defragger
can get them - which is fine, since if the only empty space
were far from the files being edited, the read/write head would
have to travel farther from the bulk of the file to get to the
resulting fragments.

*TimDaniels*
 
"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam@SpamMeNot.com> wrote:

>> "Jim Hawkins" <jimhawkins@manx.net> wrote:
>>> If the defragmenter is run consecutively repeatedly, will it eventually
>>> complete the compacting (i.e. defrag all the 'whitespace') ?
>
> No.

Did you reply to the wrong person deliberately?

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