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coldbugcoldbug Member Posts: 189
in Windows XP Professional
Can the old FAT be Defrag like the others FAT 16, FAT 32 and NTFS?
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    TravR1TravR1 Member Posts: 332
    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.
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    Michael_MatthewsMichael_Matthews Member Posts: 1 ■□□□□□□□□□
    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
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    coldbugcoldbug Member Posts: 189
    got it!! thanks guys
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