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defrag improvement.
A phenomenon I have observed in Windows XP is that when I compact in =
Outlook Express before running Disk Defragmenter then file fragmentation = is less when Disk Defragmenter analyses the disk. ~~~~~~ Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FCA Stourport, Worcs, England Enquire, plan and execute. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please tell the newsgroup how any=20 suggested solution worked for you. http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "andrea catto'" wrote in message = ... Guys... =20 I know for a fact if you want to write sector by sector from the = beginning to end of an hard drive, it may be very fast. =20 Defrag is very slow indeed. =20 I am wondering if there is some optimization that can be made to the = defrag so that data is pre-prepared in memory (just the meta data of course), = and once those pointers are ready, a major one-time-only set of writes = occurs. =20 the problem I think with the slowness of defrag is that it moves = blocks back and forth. =20 I know I know, defrag must keep the disk consistent so it can not do a = one time operation otherwise a power failure may screw it all up.... =20 but what do you think ? =20 |
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