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is there something i can do about files that will not defrag?
- Thread starter pak
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Get a defrag utility that does offline defragmentation (pre-boot).
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What are the files? As previously stated, a good offline boot-time defrag program can defrag all files during a boot. As long as it's mostly defrag'd, I'm not even sure I'd bother with doing an offline frag. I couldn't imagine the performance gain would be that much.
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Try freeing up more space on your HDD. I've found that when I have files that won't defrag, they are huge files ( .VOBs mostly from DVD authoring ) and if I only had an 80gig ( ew....Dell ) with most of it full, it couldn't defrag them. When I cleared up some space, the problem went away. Plus its always nice to have lots of room.
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Contig is pretty good at defragging these kinds of files. Or O&O defrag can usually do it.
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There is practically no gain from making extremely large files contiguous. It is highly unlikely that the system will request an entire 2 GiB file to be paged into memory at once and even if it is, small read and write requests are issued all the time by the system, seeking a couple of times will not noticably impact performance. Filesystem fragmentation isn't something to worry about unless it is particularly severe.
