[Defragging Freespace seems to not work]

Thank you Dennis.   You may be right.   Maybe I'm wanting something that is neither possible, feasible nor necessary  :-)

 

I guess when it comes to hard drives, I'm obsessive with organization.   All those files and gaps just bugs me.  lol

[Defragging Freespace seems to not work]

Changing those options did not make any difference

[Defragging Freespace seems to not work]

Hello,

 

(Updated - I may have found the answer, skip to bottom of this post)

 

I have 3 hard drives on my Windows 7 Ultimate computer.

 

The drive in question has 4 partitions and is used for storing disk images and other backups including sometimes files larger than 4 GB

As far as I know, there are no protected or system files on this drive other than the file allocation table and indexes.

 

In every defragger I have tried, the GUI display shows fragments and free space scattered all over the drive.   Hundreds and hundred of bits and pieces of free space and files.  Visually, it's a mess.

 

However, not one of the defraggers I have tried, including Defraggler seems to be able to clean up this disk and eliminate all those gaps and files strewn about the drive.

I do realize that it may not enhance performance to fouther attempt to defrag the drive, but I simply "want" contiguous files and contiguous freespace.

 

I have tried drfragging Freespace (without the allow fragments option) several times and it doesn't appear to do anything to the freespace.

 

What could I be doing wrong or am I expecting too much?

 

Is the very best way to acheive a truly "contiguous" drive involve copying ALL the files off the drive then copying them back to the drive?

 

Thanks

 

 

Update

It may have been settings under Options that I need to change.  I have made those changes and am trying again.

Will report back after it's done.