Recte:

I've done it several times now -- just to compress everything on the WD
External Hard Drive. I saved 2GB.

The .bkf file is about 9 GB and takes a very long time to defragment --
about 15-20 minutes -- even with a USB2 connection. There are also some
other smaller files on the WD drive for a total of about 12GB.

The WD drive is a 160GB drive, formatted as an NTFS drive.

The system recognizes it in Disk Defragmenter [the XP tool] as well as in
Disk Cleanup and told me how fragmented it was [34%] and that I SHOULD
defragment it.

DSH

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