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Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 25th, 2014, 21:54

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.

Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 27th, 2014, 8:19

If you want to defragment a single file, CONTIG from SysInternals does it.
technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897428.aspx

Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 27th, 2014, 9:50

It seems that CONTIG is a commandline tool, not GUI based?

Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 27th, 2014, 11:23

Correct.

Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 27th, 2014, 22:45

does the OP want to also specify where the file is now located? I dont think Contig does that.

Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 28th, 2014, 9:44

Yes, I do want to do so. Thank.

Re: Tool to move the clusters/sectors for a file

April 28th, 2014, 10:36

Can you code? I don't think it would be that difficult to write a util to do it
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