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I really need to defragment both of my hard drives.. I analyzed both drives and when I view the report of the analysis, it mentions things like "238 fragments" attached to certain mp3s and wavs of my music and a couple of thousand fragments attached to various files created in my chaotic dvd-authoring experiment sessions.. by defragmenting am I risking losing data vital to the existence of these files? or is what is to be defragmented a superfluous something that needs to go away? |
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A defrag should just rearrange where the bits of each file are stored physically on the drive, still keeping the file intact. From what I understand of drive storage, a file is written in little blocks, which a pointer at the end of each block to say where to go and look for the next block in the file. That way a file can be spread out all over the drive and there doesn't have to be any one single space big enough to fit the file continuously. Defraging just collects all the bits of all files together, freeing up more continuous empty space and improving file access/read time. |
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ahhh ok.. thank you so very much |
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it just organizes your harddrive so the files can be found easier,.. something like that, its not harmful |
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do it! it makes things faster |
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yeah yeah. i do 'er every couple of weeks. |
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it'd be great if i could do that to my head. |
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yeah defraggin is a gooood thing if youve been organizing and reorganizing..... eventually all comps need a good frag or two |
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Yea.. so do your part and shoot your computer. It is preferrable if you use a really high powered sniper rifle as well. taht bitch azz cpu wuz pwnt!!11 |
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i was waiting for a gamer to wander in here. =] |
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yes.... gamerzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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BLAM!BLAM!BLAM! GUH GUH GUH GUH GUH! PSHEW! PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW! BZZZZZZZAAAP! |
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i used to play video games... it's a tough racket.. *sips drink* |
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thats what ive been meaning to do |
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