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cliche · 11-06-2003, 03:19 PM

Run the defrag application and see how fragmented your files are, if you think it's too much then defrag!

defragging makes your HD faster. Normally, files get split up into small sections across the hard disc (fragments), and when the HD wants to read them it ends up skipping across the whole disc to reconstruct the file. Defragmenting puts all of these fragments together, allowing the disc to read the file without having to move the read-head so far - thus speeding things up.

I'd recommend you do it fairly regularly (a fully-fragged disc takes ages to defragment); esp on your system drive where the difference will really be noticeable.

11-06-2003, 03:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
cliche Rookie Location: Oxford, UK	Run the defrag application and see how fragmented your files are, if you think it's too much then defrag! defragging makes your HD faster. Normally, files get split up into small sections across the hard disc (fragments), and when the HD wants to read them it ends up skipping across the whole disc to reconstruct the file. Defragmenting puts all of these fragments together, allowing the disc to read the file without having to move the read-head so far - thus speeding things up. I'd recommend you do it fairly regularly (a fully-fragged disc takes ages to defragment); esp on your system drive where the difference will really be noticeable. __________________ I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage (1912 - 1992)