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Article #126Re: Defrag for NTFS
From: Matthew Kruk
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 00:00
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Larry E. Hayes wrote: > > NTFS should perform a defrag as part of it's normal process functioning. > This is a major concept of an NTFS. The only time you would need a defrag > program would be if you choose to use the FAT instead of NTFS. I could be > wrong about this. However, the information regarding NTFS should be > correct according to my training on NT. Based on what I've been told, NTFS does not perform a defrag and the only way to do so is something to the effect of "copy from one hard disk to another and then back". However, I have found Norton Utilities for NT (2.0) does a decent job of optimizing (though it is slow).
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