Defragmenting Windows 2000 NTFS Volumes with Cluster Sizes larger than 4kb

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Bob Wells

Is there any way around this limitation short of upgrading
to Windows XP/2003?
 
Bob,

No. Microsoft's defrag APIs under Win2k do not support defragmenting NTFS
drives with a cluster size greater than 4k.

- Greg/Raxco Software
Microsoft MVP - Windows File System

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a
commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.

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