Cannot defrag my HD under Win2k...

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Kamox

Hello,
I use win2k Pro and have a 40GB NTFS-formatted hard disk with 16 kbyte
clusters.
The built-in-os defrag utility doesn't work, neither do the trial
versions of O&O Defrag V6.5 Pro and Diskeeper 9.
It seems that the cluster size is the problem. How can I manage to
defragment my hard disk (without having to format it, i mean ;-))?

Thanks for your advices,

Kamox
 
Hello,
I use win2k Pro and have a 40GB NTFS-formatted hard disk with 16 kbyte
clusters.
The built-in-os defrag utility doesn't work, neither do the trial
versions of O&O Defrag V6.5 Pro and Diskeeper 9.
It seems that the cluster size is the problem. How can I manage to
defragment my hard disk (without having to format it, i mean ;-))?

Thanks for your advices,

Kamox
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If Raxco perfectdisk can't defrag it, nobody can. If
it can't I'd like to understand why.

(just a satisfied customer.)
 
Kamox said:
I use win2k Pro and have a 40GB NTFS-formatted hard disk with 16 kbyte
clusters.
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You've converted this drive from FAT32 to NTFS and CONVERT.EXE has
retained the 16k clusters.
It seems that the cluster size is the problem. How can I manage to
defragment my hard disk (without having to format it, i mean ;-))?
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Partition Magic will resize the clusters without losing data. Take a
backup first if your data is important, and expect the first defrag
after the resizing to take a very long time.
 
The 4KB NTFS limit is part of Win2K. You need to install Win XP or 2003 trial
to another partition to defrag.
 
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