How do I programmatically defragment hard drive?

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How do I programmatically defragment hard drive space?

saber rezaii magham wrote (in comment to Solution1):

Thanks... But I want to make a program like defrag.exe.

Posted 8-Apr-14 9:45am

saber rezaii magham

Updated 8-Apr-14 23:34pm

Maciej Los

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Emre Ataseven · Answer 1 · 2014-04-08T11:08:00

Solution 2

You should use a defrag api c# wrapper
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jeffrey_wall/archive/2004/09/13/229137.aspx[^]

Posted 8-Apr-14 11:08am

Emre Ataseven

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Apr-14 17:40pm

Interesting enough, a 5.
—SA

Maciej Los 9-Apr-14 5:33am

You're right, Sergey!

saber rezaii magham 9-Apr-14 6:01am

what is the Appropriate value for ## VCN, LCN, count ## in MoveFile?

Maciej Los · Answer 2 · 2014-04-08T09:56:00

Solution 1

Call defrag.exe, but remember: you need to have admin privileges ;)

Here is an implementation: Process Start and Running Defrag Command Line[^]

Posted 8-Apr-14 9:56am

Maciej Los

Updated 8-Apr-14 9:57am

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saber rezaii magham 8-Apr-14 16:10pm

Thanks...
But I want to make a program like defrag.exe.

Maciej Los 8-Apr-14 17:24pm

Please, be more specific next time.

saber rezaii magham 9-Apr-14 5:12am

Ok!