Re: Windows XP pagefile keeps getting very fragmented

Martin Underwood wrote:
> "John of Aix" <j.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:43219419$0$994$8fcfb975@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Martin Underwood wrote:
>>
>>> Is there anything I can do to minimise the tendency towards
>>> fragmentation or is the only real solution to reformat the disk
>>> (hopefully giving 4 KB cluster) and reinstall everything?
>>
>> I don't see why you'd have to reformat, a simple change to NTFS
>> should do it.
>
> Ah, sorry, I thought I'd made it clear that the disk *is* NTFS,
> though with a 512 byte cluster size rather than the more normal 4 KB
> cluster size. I was surmising, from what I've heard in the past, that
> the reason for this is that it was originally installed as FAT32 and
> then converted to NTFS (by Mesh before I got it), but I don't know
> that as a fact.

Sorry, I didn't notice the 'and converted it afterwards'. Yes sounds
like they've made the wrong choice at conversion time (I think you have
one then IIRC). Perhaps a third party tool like Partition Magic has the
capacity of resizing the clusters. Others must have had a similar
problem so there is probably a tool out there.

I've just googled 'cluster resize' and indeed PM does it and others too.


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