Chapter 12. Disk Utilities
The utilities described in this chapter focus on disk and volume management:
Disk2Vhd captures a VHD image of a physical disk.
Diskmon is a real-time monitoring utility that logs sector-level hard disk activity.
Sync flushes unwritten changes from disk caches to the physical disk.
DiskView displays a cluster-by-cluster graphical map of a volume, letting you find what file is in particular clusters and which clusters are occupied by a given file.
Contig lets you defragment specific files or see how fragmented a particular file is.
PageDefrag defragments system files at boot time that cannot be defragmented while Microsoft Windows is running.
DiskExt displays information about disk extents.
LDMDump displays detailed information ...
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