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C-drive is 5.6 GB, is formatted in FAT32, and has currently 2.65 GB free. I
mainly use it for XP. It's one of 10 (two are FAT32, the rest are NTFS)
partitions spread over two drives. When I use Diskeeper 8 to defrag C-drive,
it never seems to defrag completely - i.e. there are still red bits visible
in the display. All other drives defrag thoroughly. When I examine the
"fragmentation report" the same files/folders seem to crop up:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE.LOG
\WINDOWS\Prefetch\
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\
\Documents and Settings\Tim\Local Settings\Temp\
\Documents and Settings\Tim\Application Data\
\Documents and Settings\Tim\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\aez5g7kv.default
\System Volume Information\_
These are the main folders that always seem to be involved; the
fragmentation is small for each case, but they nevertheless refuse to
defrag! Since I switched to Firefox, its folder and files seem particularly
hard to defrag, even after I close the browser and clear the cache. And how
do I defrag the "System Volume Information" folder? It just won't budge,
even if I delete all but the most recent Restore Points.
I have another FAT32 partition and that defrags fine, so I doubt it is the
FAT32 format that is to blame (though it is slower to defrag than NTFS).
Tim
C-drive is 5.6 GB, is formatted in FAT32, and has currently 2.65 GB free. I
mainly use it for XP. It's one of 10 (two are FAT32, the rest are NTFS)
partitions spread over two drives. When I use Diskeeper 8 to defrag C-drive,
it never seems to defrag completely - i.e. there are still red bits visible
in the display. All other drives defrag thoroughly. When I examine the
"fragmentation report" the same files/folders seem to crop up:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SOFTWARE.LOG
\WINDOWS\Prefetch\
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Dr Watson\
\Documents and Settings\Tim\Local Settings\Temp\
\Documents and Settings\Tim\Application Data\
\Documents and Settings\Tim\Application
Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\aez5g7kv.default
\System Volume Information\_
These are the main folders that always seem to be involved; the
fragmentation is small for each case, but they nevertheless refuse to
defrag! Since I switched to Firefox, its folder and files seem particularly
hard to defrag, even after I close the browser and clear the cache. And how
do I defrag the "System Volume Information" folder? It just won't budge,
even if I delete all but the most recent Restore Points.
I have another FAT32 partition and that defrags fine, so I doubt it is the
FAT32 format that is to blame (though it is slower to defrag than NTFS).
Tim