JiK

There are various types of 'defrag utility' - Norton used to have many 'modes', some of which would just defrag files, some of which would just 'pack' the disk, some of which would try to do all that...

The best and fasteset one for 98SE is the ME one apparently, I use that - it's reputedly faster than the standard 98 one to. It packs the disk - opening up all the free space at the end. It may still be available somewhere on the web as a 'courtesy' download, now that MS has dropped support.

I also have something called 'Disklite'(the free sam'le) from memory - I'm not using the 98 box at the moment - it just defrags files and spatters free space every where.