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Defrag a drive encrypted with Whole Drive Encryption

I am running Windows Vista where the entire system drive has been encrypted using Truecrypt 6.2 Whole Drive Encryption (WDE). I was wondering whether defragging a drive which is encrypted with WDE would yield the same results as a non-encrypted…
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Does the Windows Server 2008 disk defragmenter work with open files?

I have a server running a number of Hyper-V guest instances. One recommendation to improve the performance of our guest OSes is to defragment the vhd files. Can I do this while the guest is still running? Is there a way to defragment only a single…
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Disable Disk Fragmentation Analysis - Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

I have been asked to look into disabling the fragmentation analysis that Windows performs automatically for one of our servers. I have verified that the Disk Defrag tool shows automatic defragmentation is disabled, that the Windows…
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Error when defragging Exchange Server 2010 mailbox Database

I am trying to perform an offline defrag on our Mail server. We are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, but have Exchange 2010 installed. I am using eseutil to perform the defrag - however I keep getting an error on PowerShell. Here's the…
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Running Defrag Task Against Servers

I have a PowerShell script as follows: $ListOfServers = "Server1", "Server2" $RunDefrag = { param($Server) $Volume = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Volume -ComputerName $Server -Filter "DriveLetter = 'c:'" $Result =…
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Why can't I defragment my SQL 2008 .mdf file?

I am defragmenting a badly (95%) fragmented drive upon which large (35 gig) SQL Server 2008 .mdf files live. After defragmenting and viewing the exception report, I see that the production .mdf file that I'm most interested in could not be…
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Exchange 2003 Defrag is too slow

I have a Exchange database that has been cleaned out and a lot of space freed up. I would like to defrag the database using eseutil, but it is taking too long. I've tried moving the files to my desktop and running them there instead of the server…
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Do I have space to defrag a machine hosted on VMWare ESXi 4.1?

I have inherited what I think is a badly configured VMWare ESXi 4.1 system, I know very little about VMWare. It currently hosts 2 systems. They are both on the same datastore, which is on RAID 5. System A has 44GB of used storage System B has…
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Resize a new database to predicted maximum size

Currently I have a SQL Server database which is about 2 Gb. I know over the next year it's going to grow to a maximum of about 10Gb. Hard drive space is not an issue in the slightest. Is there a down side to resizing the datafile to 20Gb now, then…
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Defragment a FILESTREAM data container

Has anyone ever tried to defrag a FILESTREAM data container using the Windows Disk Defragmenter? Does this work without taking the FILESTREAM enabled database offline? If this doesn't work, can someone recommend an alternate solution (hopefully…
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NTFS Defrag fails - master file table is too fragmented. (0x89000023)

Issue: MFT is to fragmented to be defragmented OS: Windows Server 2016 The goal was to shrink a volume/partition to make room for a separate data section, but the question comes down to: any known solution to this defrag issue/error?. Is there any…
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