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 ...

I have a WD 120 gig 7200rpm hd thats my main drive. I guess my scheduled defragging using norton systemworks has been slackin or something because somehow my disk is 97% fragmented. which explains why ...

File fragmentation is one of the constants of Microsoft’s, and other, operating systems. On a brand-new drive, the first files written are all written to contiguous parts of the drive, making for the ...

They will defrag automatically whenever idle, and you can also check up on them with from the accompanying defrag console software. IMO, it's more convenient than scheduling defrag on many ...