Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
Why did the files, being written sequentially to a clean, empty drive, end up fragmented? If it matters, when I reformatted the drives I enabled compression.

I think Bitt answered the question just fine. I'm just replying to find out what you're using for a defrag program. I was under the impression that the one built into Windows isn't all that great.

I'm currently a fan of JKDefrag. I keep a portable version of it on my portable apps drive.
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Matt