Can't defrag some of Doom 3 files...(.pk4 files)

thirdlegstump

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Right when I'm trying to speed up the loading of levels....damn.
Defrag reports after finishing defragging that those .pk4 files could not be defragged. What could be the deal? I've tried this under safe mode too, no go.
 

Nothinman

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What does it matter? But you probably don't have a large enough contigous chunk of free space to defrag them in.
 

VirtualLarry

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Are the files marked as Hidden, System, or Read-Only? If they were copied directly off of a CD/DVD onto the HD, then they may be marked Read-Only, and then certain defrag programs will refuse to move them.
 

thirdlegstump

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Larry, nope. Everything was installed from the setup app from the CD and I made sure they aren't set to read only. What ther defrag utils are there (free ones perhaps?)
 

Smilin

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Do this:

Defrag your drive
Make a COPY of the files in question.
Delete the originals
Put the copies back in place of the originals.

Should take most if not all fragmentation out of them.