[bookport] Re: Should this be taking this long?
- From: Clarence Whaley <clarence@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:08:54 -0600
I'm not sure a CF card will ever defrag or if there is really a reason to
do this. Formatting should be sufficient and that with formatting from the
BookPort.
At 08:47 AM 3/24/2005 -0600, you wrote:
>Walt, I'm not sure what kind of OS you are running, but I have a
>question. Can you defrag a FAT CF card in Windows XP, or does it just
>do FAT 32 and NTFS? Thanks.
>Neal
>
>
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>Subject: [bookport] Should this be taking this long?
>
>
>I put a 1 GB CF card into my reader/burner, opened the MS-DOS prompt
>window, and issued Defrag e: /v and while I did get the initial
>verbose information, there's no indication in the MS-DOS prompt window
>that anything is taking place. It's been at least 20 minutes. Should a
>1 GB card take this long to be defragmented? The fragmentation
>percentage was high--34%.
>
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