[gui-talk] Windows XP Home Defrag doesn't see my A: drive

[George Cassell]

When you remove ALL of the files from the disk by erasing them, you free up 
that space so that, when the disk is again written to, the files are written 
contiguously.  But ALL files must have been erased in the first place.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
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Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Windows XP Home Defrag doesn't see my A: drive


Hi George,

I've just done this, anyway.  But I have no idea if the files necessarily
reorganize themselves more compactly when you do this.  If they do, that's
nice.  Do our know?  Or are you guessing?
egoranize
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Cassell" <apolloseven at earthlink.net>
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Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 1:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Windows XP Home Defrag doesn't see my A: drive


You can always "manually" defrag a floppy disk yourself.  The way I do it,
is to either move all the files to a new, blank disk, or move all the files
from the floppy  to a specially-created directory on my hard drive, then
erase and reformat the floppy disk, then move all those files that I
temporarily stored on my hard drive, back to the floppy disk once again.

-- George