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Old Feb 15, 2007, 03:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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NTFS defragging questions

I used to like the NTFS filesystem but then I noticed with O&O defrag, every once in a while I'll have these giant freespace gaps on filesystems with alot of large files because theres 1 small 'system' file that's in the way of making the file one giant contiguous block. Perfect Disk won't consolidate or move them, nor will Diskeeper or any boot time defragger from any utility. It's annoying because they don't appear to belong to any metadata or any part of the $MFT. I can't see or delete them either!

Anyone know what or why this happens or at least a utility to move them somewhere out of the way? It makes defragging useless at some points and I don't want to reformat/restore just for that.

Thanks in advance
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