I'm giving Diskeeper a try right now. Typically convoluted setup and UI, but I like the idea of its background defrag and ability to stop its business when it detects the disk being used by other processes.

I'm giving it a shot on the two volumes that I didn't pre-defrag with the other software and will hopefully know by sometime tomorrow how it's done.
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Bruno
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