I regulary copy episodes and movies to G:, then later delete batches. I partition my primary PC drive for the same reason: to curtail fragmentation. Files on C: rarely change. "Documents and Settings" live on D:, while torrents and other downloads are written to E:. The pagefile lives on G: which is a different physical drive. Internet cache lives on a much smaller FAT partition on the second drive. All other partitions are NTFS.gamersha794 said:
This limits fragmentation to a particular physical boundry on the media -- effectively "reducing" fragmentation.
There are a variety of defragmentation tools that can be run from a miniPE environment. I usually defrag the PC "offline".
Now, there are also tools that will allow one to access NTFS partitions "offline" as well as linux partitions irrespective of permissions. I see no reason why a competant programmer (I'm not a programmer) couldn't design a filesystem abstration layer or utility to read FATX offline: either from an XBOX homebrew application, or connected to a PC.
That it hasn't happened yet does not necessarily mean that no one has tried it. If it hasn't been tried then ... well try hoping or find yourself an engineer or extremely geeky programmer. Gee, where ever could we find extremely geeky programmers...
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