scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> >  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.

> After you've moved off the 1GB file the defragmenter might behave 
> differently?

  I did that the first time, and it didn't make any difference.

> Anyway, even if there wasn't 1GB of contiguous free space, the file will 
> likely not get fragmented as much as it is currently, so it won't do any 
> harm.

  I just want to know why the defragmenter is refusing to move those files.
I would also like to make the page file one single contiguous block in the
disk. However, I'm unable to do that because of those small files.

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