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Defrag NTFS w/64 KB clusters - app recommendations
« on: December 13, 2005, 02:30:26 AM »
Any recommendations for 3rd party defrag utilities for Win2k Pro?  My setup:

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64 KB clusters

The large clusters have resulted in excellent performance for this array that I use almost exclusively for LARGE audio files.  But, of course, Win2K defragger only works with clusters <= 4 KB, as do the others I've tried:  PerfectDisk, Diskeeper, Paragaon Partition Manager.

Any recommendations for a defragger that'll handle 64 KB clusters?  Freeware, shareware, commercial - doesn't matter.
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Re: Defrag NTFS w/64 KB clusters - app recommendations
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2005, 08:22:57 AM »
does partition magic have a utility for this?
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Re: Defrag NTFS w/64 KB clusters - app recommendations
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2005, 08:46:16 AM »
i have partition magic at home, but haven't been home to look yet.  I tried looking for info about it last night on the web, but couldn't really find anything.

i do have the installer tho, if you need it.


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Re: Defrag NTFS w/64 KB clusters - app recommendations
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2005, 01:23:32 PM »
Well, I've found not one app that will defrag NTFS volumes with > 4KB clusters.  Not one.  Some used to do so, but do so no longer.  So...I broke out my old copy of Partition Magic and resized the clusters to 4KB.   :-\  Hmph.
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Re: Defrag NTFS w/64 KB clusters - app recommendations
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2005, 02:34:11 PM »
I think O & O defrag will do this

http://www.oo-software.com   they have a demo available
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Re: Defrag NTFS w/64 KB clusters - app recommendations
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2005, 03:10:47 PM »
I think O & O defrag will do this

Nope, tried it.  I think O&O used to do it (as did a bunch of others), but it seems all the apps now call Windows APIs for defragging, which limits them to the Windows cluster size restrictions.  For XP, not an issue.  But for Win2K, it's a problem for clusters > 4KB.  Not a huge deal, I can live with 4KB clusters.
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