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Would it be okay to use the defragger which comes with Dos 6.0 to defragment my Windows XP Fat32 drive?
NO! You may loose your long file names among other things. What is wrong with the defrag that comes with XP?
-Michael
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Is this even POSSIBLE?
Symantec's defragmenter bundled with MS-DOS 6.x isn't designed to work with FAT32. I seriously doubt it could even recognize some of the logical disk structures.
I sure as hell wouldn't try it if I cared about the data.
Dan, just use the disk defragmenting utility bundled with Windows XP or possibly a good third party solution that's designed to handle FAT32. (Executive Software's Diskeeper comes to mind.)
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One question about defragging. Does defragging free up a lot more disk space? Or is it simply for better and quicker organization/performance on your disk?
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Simply put, it does both.
Whether it is a lot of disk space freed up or not depends on how fragmented the drive was. But it will increase free space and increase drive performance.
-Michael
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The reason I wanted to use a defragger other than the one that came with WinXP was becasue I need to resize my partition with a program called Fips, but in order for it to work, all the files have to be at the beginning of the harddisk. WinXP's defragger would not move all the files to the beginning. I don't know why, perhaps it doesn't move files which are larger than a certain size or something. Or maybe it writes to the disk again after it's finished defragging. I even disabled virtual memory and made sure no programs were in the system tray.
I heard partition magic can resize my partition, but I would much rather do it with Fips. Does anyone know any defraggers which will work with WinXP?
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If the goal is to cut the drive, and move the files up front, and you are certain XP is running fat32 not NTFS, then just put the drive in a 98SE machine as the 2nd drive, and run defrag. It will work better than if it were in the XP machine, as XP holds open a number of files, that will never be moved when the boot drive is mounted, and not in safe mode. I do not recommend attempting running of defrag in safe mode. It can be done at certain patch levels on win2k, and messes up the SID.
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That is a funny question. Did you try Dos 6.0 defrag and it worked? As I recall I tried MS-DOS 6.00 DEFRAG and it did preserve long filenames.
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