dirty bit

Have usb drive that has succumbed to the dirty bit horror. i can't defragment it because it is supposed to be chkdsk'ed. I use chkntfs /x k: and it no longer tried to chkdsk it at boot time but, apparently, the bit is still set so I can't defrag it.

Is there some way to actualy reset the bit rather than just ignore it at boot time? (Other than run the chkdsk... it's a 300 drive and would take hours to do a chkdsk 5)


Thanks

John
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