Yeah it might do, if you're suffering with a well fragmented drive.
When your computer writes a file to the disk it might write little bits all over the place, if only little bits of disk are free. Defragging it shuffles all the data fragments about so that files are, as far as possible, contiguous.
Posted By: Arizona Bay on November 3rd 2005 at 11:52:13
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- What does defragmenting the hard drive do? (General Chat) - DDiM, Nov 3, 11:50:13
- Yeah it might do, if you're suffering with a well fragmented drive. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 11:52:13
- contiguous (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 3, 12:03:02
- Promulgate is awful (General Chat) - Tomblander, Nov 3, 12:11:50
- but I have a good hand gesture that goes with it (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 3, 12:17:31
- Lady, you need to (n/m) (General Chat) - Talk To The Hand, Nov 3, 12:20:54
- Serious deja vu. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 12:19:56
- but I have a good hand gesture that goes with it (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 3, 12:17:31
- Camcan you should go on Countdown (n/m) (General Chat) - lovely old job, Nov 3, 12:07:39
- It is a good word. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 12:06:30
- do you think it's 'guh' sounds (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 3, 12:12:38
- You might be onto somethng there. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 12:17:13
- do you think it's 'guh' sounds (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 3, 12:12:38
- Promulgate is awful (General Chat) - Tomblander, Nov 3, 12:11:50
- Does the equivalent of... (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 3, 11:59:50
- how do you do it? (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Nov 3, 11:53:14
- Yes, piece of piss. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 11:56:42
- And switch your screensaver off... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Nov 3, 12:00:58
- Never mind defragging (General Chat) - Old Git, Nov 3, 11:56:10
- Got both spybot and adaware (General Chat) - DDiM, Nov 3, 12:09:11
- Exactly. Defragging used to make a big difference back in the (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 3, 11:57:34
- Go into my computer (General Chat) - DDiM, Nov 3, 11:54:57
- Yes, piece of piss. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 11:56:42
- Ta (General Chat) - DDiM, Nov 3, 11:52:58
- contiguous (General Chat) - camcan, Nov 3, 12:03:02
- Yeah it might do, if you're suffering with a well fragmented drive. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Nov 3, 11:52:13
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