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re: file fragments
Monday, February 26, 2007 at 6:41 pm
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Posted by Steve B (1909 messages posted)


I should add that your disk may be too full to defragment, or it may have been at 
one time.  I notice your MFT has 3 fragments.  Normally I see two fragments, but 
when I let one partition get too full, I ended up with three.  That's not a problem 
for me now because I freed up a lot of space.






On Monday, February 26, 2007 at 6:27 pm, Steve B wrote:
>Yeah, not a real big problem.
>
>Those files are specific to a user, I assume they are under your user name. I don't
>know exactly what they are, but they might be temporary I.E. files.
>
>If you can log in as another user, those files won't be in use and they should defragment.
> Assuming you are not using the Administrator account now, you could log in as Administrator
>and defragment them.
>
> If you are using XP pro, you can hit ctrl-alt-del twice when you are at the normal
>login screen to log in as Administrator, or any other account with admin privileges.
> Of course you have to know the password, if there is one.
>
>Or you can log in as administrator by booting up in safe mode.
>
>
>



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re: file fragments (Steve B: Monday, February 26, 2007 at 6:27 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-file fragments (wildbill2u: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 1:56 pm)
*re: file fragments (Kroan: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 2:07 pm)
-re: file fragments (Steve B: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 6:27 pm)
*re: file fragments (Steve B: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 6:41 pm)
-re: file fragments (Brian: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 7:02 pm)
*re: file fragments (wildbill2u: Mon, Feb 26, 2007, 7:18 pm)
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