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So basically I have a drive that I've tried to clean up, but I still cannot get enough continuous space on it for files to defragment properly, so can I use another drive with a lot of extra space to rearrange the files so that they can then be copied back to the defragging drive as contiguous files?

If I can, how would I be able to do this?

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why the hassle, move some stuff temporarily off that hard drive, defraggle it and then move the files back. – Molly7244 Dec 15 '09 at 5:13
Interesting idea Dennis, but I agree with Molly. The end result is the same, the process is similar. Only difference is the amount of hassle setting it up. – outsideblasts Dec 15 '09 at 5:23
Take the sane route that Molly suggested – Tyler Dec 15 '09 at 5:49
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NTFS is fairly good at keeping files contiguous if:

  • the drive is big enough
  • the files are copied over onto a freshly formatted disk

So I would do what Molly suggested in the comments: move the pr0n and videos to the other, bigger drive (which will be reasonably contiguous), defrag the main drive with Defraggler, and move them back again (though I wouldn't even bother moving them back if the second drive is a permanent solution).

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If you are willing to try an alternative defragmenter, download the trial version of Diskeeper. It defrags with as less as 1% free space.

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