Defrag question 1

[comdata]

Hi

I'm trying to defrag my harddrive on an XP Pro SP2. After the program gets to about 8% complete, I get the message thats states that it cannot defrag a fragmented 12 gig file called "backup.bkf" dated August of 2005. Can I safely delete this file so that my defrag will complete?
Thank you in advance.

 

[linney]

Old Backup files are not much use to you, other than perhaps images of a clean install, made the day you installed XP. A .bkf file is not an image file and was probably created by the XP backup program (NTbackup), restoring back to August 2005 is a waste of time (too old).

It should be safe to just delete it (use the Shift key so it doesn't end up in the Recycle Bin).

Defrag problem

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...backup.bkf"+defrag+xp&rnum=1#59ea7713d745b066

Have a read of these threads to see how you can reclaim additional hard drive space.

Relocating Hard Drive Capacity and File Compression
thread779-939540

Hard Disk still full after deleting large files
thread779-1136701

Nothing I say here is meant to discourage the use of backups, they are a necessary evil.

 

[comdata]

Thank you for the reply "linney" and the links to additional info.