Art,

I cannot claim to speak for HP, but when I took the MPE/iX system manager's class a while back, the instructor recommended periodic system reloads to handle fragmentation.  If that didn't sound too appealing, he suggested we look at 3rd party utilities as another option.

FWIW,

Art Frank
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>>> Art Bahrs <[log in to unmask]> 03/28 8:06 AM >>>
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> Hi Bill and Gary :)
>    As the newly designated DeFragX person here at Denkor....
> I know that drives get frag'ed over time... and need to be
> defrag'ed but... does anyone know of how HP recommends to
> do this??
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