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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:07:19+00:00

Risk Factors for File Fragmentation include mostly full Disks and repeated file appends. What

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Risk Factors for File Fragmentation include mostly full Disks and repeated file appends. What are other risk factors for file fragmentation? How would one make a program using common languages like C++/C#/VB/VB.NET to work with files & make new files with the goal of increasing file fragmentation?

WinXP / NTFS is the target

Edit: Would something like this be a good approach? Hard Drive free space = FreeMB_atStart

  • Would creating files of say 10MB to fill
    90% of the remaining hard drive space
  • Deleting every 3rd created file
  • making file of size FreeMB_atStart * .92 / 3
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  1. Editorial Team

    This should achieve at least some level of fragmentation on most file systems:

    1. Write numerous small files,
    2. Delete some at random files,
    3. Writing a large file, byte-by-byte.

    Writing it byte-by-byte is important, because otherwise if the file system is intelligent, it can just write the large file to a single contiguous place.

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