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Originally Posted by Dave Berk
That did the trick  . Thanks!
I had no idea we still need to defrag drives in windows 7. Looking at the defrag utility it is scheduled to run every Wednesday night at 1:00, only I never leave the computer on at nights, so the drive was probably in a very sad shape.
Thanks again. |
Defrag is a function of the type of filesystem on mechanical drives (probably not a great idea to do on flash drives with lifetime, limited writes).
FAT(xx), and NTFS allow file portions to be split.
Some other file systems only allow files to be written in contiguous blocks and need to be "Packed" or you may get "Out of Space" with lots of tiny empty pieces still left. Packing may be automaticly don in background.
You should also run error checks every once in a while. Specially after an ABEND or power fail.
