"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

Remember the old days, when we would write or type on paper? We would start at the top of the sheet, and keep writing until we were done. We could then take that five-page book report and neatly file ...

Q. I know I’m suppose to defrag my hard drive every now and then so it runs more efficiently. But every time I start a defrag, the function runs for a few minutes, stops and then starts all over again ...

Defragging a hard drive was once so common it was almost a rite of passage for computer users. Many different disk utility and maintenance programs offered defragmentation routines as part of their ...

Rasha1997 asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum if he should use Windows’ own defragging tool, a third-party defragger, or just not bother. The short answer: Defragging isn’t vital anymore, ...

I wish I could say that I’m guaranteed to recoup many times over the time I spent defragging my PCs by having them run so much faster post-defrag. Maybe I’m kidding myself that there’s any practical ...

Q A friend of mine suggested that I "defragment" my computer every once in a while. He says it will boost performance, but he also said it will move my data around. I tend to be very organized as to ...

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I'm running Win2k+SP2,NTFS on a P2400 laptop and i was wondering if excessive defragging will compromise my HD's integrity. If, for some reason, i abort the defrag because i have to leave the house ...

Theoretically, if you have a file that is split on 2 drives it can be read simultaneously from both drives. If you defrag that array, I'd guess that the file is then combined into one contiguous file ...