Here is my drive after performing a freespace defragmentation (not allowing fragmentation):
The free space has not been defragmented... I have tried deselecting the option to not move large files during freespace defrag as well as entirely turning off the option to move large files.
I need one large contiguous block of freespace at the end of my drive.
I need one large contiguous block of freespace at the end of my drive.
Defrag free space will not accomplish your mission. I once ran free space defrag for the experience. It took 2 mins and noticed little, if any, change.
Are you trying to create end-of-drive free space so as to shrink the partition?
As I have said before this is a long standing bug. Defrag Freespace doesn't work as intended, period. It will create more fragmentation (even if using the "do not allow fragmentation" option). That's one of the bugs that annoy me the most, because I don't use the normal defrag process because it can be utterly slow on big partitions. I usually defragment from the file list. But sometimes, you may need to fill up some gaps on your drive.
I am trying to get to the point where I can shrink the partition as a matter of fact.
I also experienced that the defrag freespace option does, in fact, really fragment your drive rather badly--
I had run the freespace defrag early in the morning before leaving for work and later my wife emailed me to tell me the computer was horribly slow. I had her run the standard Windows built-in defrag which solved that problem...
Defraggler is a great idea and I hope they get this stuff worked out.
Yes. I would suggest using Windows internal defrag to consolidate files in the interim.