Sep 5, 2006, 10:15 PM
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Disk defragmenting is a good thing.
Sometimes when you save files on your hard drive, it gets saved in bits and pieces scattered around the drrive, as opposed to one solid block of data.
What these sorts of programs do is reorganize this data so that you have a lot less pieces, and thus have more blocks of data next to each other. Mostly, it saves the hard drive in seeking time.
There is the very rare situation where your disc defragmenting program will lose some data, or make some terrible error; but the odds of this happening are so slim as to be practically nonexistent. And the odds of data loss because of a fragmented hard drive far outweigh this possibility.
Anyways, I would suggest that you not use Microsoft's standard defragmenting program. Not exactly because it is a poor program, but because there are a multitude of other, far better programs out there. I personally favour Raxco's PerfectDisk, which I can upload to megaupload or rapidshare if you want. PD has a couple of very handy defrag options which can speed up your computer beyond that which MS's can do.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
Last edited by packrat; Sep 5, 2006 at 10:18 PM.
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