> From Microsoft Help > " > Disk Defragmenter does not attempt to consolidate all of the free > space on a volume. Although free space fragmented into hundreds of > pieces adversely affects performance, free space split into a few > pieces does not. Having all of the free space consolidated in a > single location provides very little performance benefit. > " > > So how do I consolidate the free space without erasing everything?
You'd have to use a third-party defragmenter like Diskeeper[1], that provides free-space consolidation and boot-time defragmentation of paging files and MFT areas. The only other way that I know of is to copy all the data off of the drive, reformat (preferably with the partition already resized), and copy the data back. [1] http://www.diskeeper.com/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
