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What are Benefits of defrag Hard Drive?
Name: George Date: April 21, 2000 at 17:37:00 Pacific
Comment:
Running Win 98 166mmx with 2 gig on Hard drive C (550mg left) and 2 gig on Hard drive D (1.8mg left).
What are the benefits of defragmenting the Hard Drives?
Have had a few problems with my computer but everything is fixed now.
Am concerned that if I defrag the Hard Drives then links may be lost and my computer won't work properly.
Name: hari krishna Date: April 21, 2000 at 17:42:09 Pacific
Reply:
Defragging helps in faster program startup's on the HDD. Defragging is nothing but, getting together all the broken parts of a file. You should defrag atleast once in a week. Use tools like NU and Vopt for quicker defrag.
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Response Number 2
Name: George Date: April 21, 2000 at 18:23:54 Pacific
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Thanks for your adcvice, Hari. George
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Response Number 3
Name: jonny Date: April 21, 2000 at 18:30:34 Pacific
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you will also gain some (small) amount of space which can then be used however you want.
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Response Number 4
Name: john Date: April 21, 2000 at 19:21:39 Pacific
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you should also defrag with the virtual memory off because windows is always wreading and writing here, and do this (defrag) in safe mode
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Response Number 5
Name: George Date: April 21, 2000 at 23:57:18 Pacific
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Thanks for your help.
George
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Response Number 6
Name: dan Date: April 22, 2000 at 22:17:08 Pacific
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there is really none because once you execute anything it frags again
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Response Number 7
Name: George Date: April 23, 2000 at 02:21:03 Pacific
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