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chcw
 Post subject: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 25th, 2014, 21:54 
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I know when a file is allocated on a file system, such as NTFS or FAT32, the file system will allocated some clusters/sectors for it. After the file is allocated, is there a tool that can move the clusters allocated to the file from one location to another, and update the file system meta data as well? This is just like a defragment for a file manually.
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ReclaiMe
 Post subject: Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 27th, 2014, 8:19 
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If you want to defragment a single file, CONTIG from SysInternals does it.
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx
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chcw
 Post subject: Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 27th, 2014, 9:50 
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It seems that CONTIG is a commandline tool, not GUI based?
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 Post subject: Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 27th, 2014, 11:23 
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Correct.
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HaQue
 Post subject: Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 27th, 2014, 22:45 
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does the OP want to also specify where the file is now located? I dont think Contig does that.
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chcw
 Post subject: Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 28th, 2014, 9:44 
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Yes, I do want to do so. Thank.
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HaQue
 Post subject: Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file
PostPosted: April 28th, 2014, 10:36 
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Can you code? I don't think it would be that difficult to write a util to do it
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