scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  Copying what over?

> Just the 1GB file that is fragmented so badly.  If the destination drive has 
> enough non-fragmented free space the file should be defragmented as it is 
> copied.  If your original drive has enough non-fragmented free space you can 
> then just copy it back and it should be in a much better state.  Note that 
> if this file is a windows system file you might need to do this outside of 
> windows for obvious reasons.

  But that's the problem: There *isn't* enough contiguous space for the
large file to be stored unfragmented because there's a bunch of small files
scattered all over the free space, and the defragmenter is refusing to move
those files to make space, for an unknown reason.

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