Re: Defraging a CD-RW

With Nero InCD and Roxio Drag-To-Disk you certainly can delete only one
file. I can see where the O/P is coming from. I know of no way to
check/defrag a rewritable CD or DVD.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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"Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e6bea1a9f1b823898a137@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:53:16 GMT from cranheim
<caranheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I use a CD-RW disk to store backup files. I update the files on this
backup
disk from time to time. Because of this, I suspect the data on the disk
is
probably fragmented.

They're not. There's no such thing as erasing one file, and therefore
there's no way for a gap to open up. It's those gaps from erased
files that create fragmentation on a hard drive.

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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/


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