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Can the old FAT be Defrag like the others FAT 16, FAT 32 and NTFS?

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Windows 2000 and beyond, no. You have to reformat the drive. The defrag utility in Windows does not support 12-bit FAT partitions. I could not find any other information.

I have no idea if there are 3rd party defrag utilities that do support it.

Michael_Matthews

Check out the Microsoft KB Article: Unable to Defragment Partition Smaller Than 16 MB

To second TravR1:

To work around this problem, back up the volume, reformat the volume, and then restore the backup to the volume. The data should be restored contiguously

coldbug

got it!! thanks guys

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