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Defragmentating a data partition
Name: xetcetc Date: June 6, 2008 at 01:21:08 Pacific OS: win98, winXP CPU/Ram: 256Mb
Comment:
I am interested to know whether it is equally important to defragment a data partition as it is to defragment a partition having windows ??
Name: Richard59 Date: June 6, 2008 at 01:40:41 Pacific
Reply:
It won't need to be done as frequently unless you are deleting/rewriting or adding a lot.
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Response Number 2
Name: xetcetc Date: June 6, 2008 at 04:21:44 Pacific
Reply:
Many many thanks, Richard59!! I thought so as well.
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Response Number 3
Name: OtheHill Date: June 6, 2008 at 06:50:32 Pacific
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I agree with Richard59. However, if you were to let things go too far you could end up with unrecoverable errors on the drive.
I would recommend you periodically run the analizer to see how much fragmentation exists and proceed from there.
Remember not to let the drive get too full either. You need a minimum of 15% free space to run defrag.
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Response Number 4
Name: Tubesandwires Date: June 6, 2008 at 09:27:24 Pacific
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It is common for some programs you may have running to cause defrag to restart many times. Defrag will skip forward to where it left off each time it restarts, but it restarting makes the total time it takes to complete much longer. If you run defrag in Safe mode instead,it will take the minumum amount of time to run it.
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Response Number 5
Name: jefro Date: June 6, 2008 at 20:07:47 Pacific
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You can't guess what is more defragmented. Use the defrag tool and it will tell you when it needs to be done. There is no difference between data and OS fragmentation.
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