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Offline Tall Adam

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hard drive fragmentation...
« on: December 23, 2004, 03:24:10 PM »
so my drive in my lappy is now 11% fragmented that will not defrag when i run one. what can be done about this? anything or is that just 11% of the drive thats that much closer to dying...
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Re: hard drive fragmentation...
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2004, 03:28:15 PM »
No, probably a good part of that part that can't be defraged is large files, liike audio files.
Fragmenation has nothing to do with the physical health of your hard drive.
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Re: hard drive fragmentation...
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2004, 03:50:09 PM »
also if you are using more than like 60% of the drive's space at least on XP it wouldn't let me defrag cause there wasn't enough space..
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Re: hard drive fragmentation...
« Reply #3 on: December 23, 2004, 05:27:17 PM »
I recommend installing a third party defrag utility.
I use and like Disk keeper.
It defragments very well and will defrag a drive that is about 85% full.
It will also do a whole lot more. Defrag the drive before windows boots etc.
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Re: hard drive fragmentation...
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2004, 11:04:14 AM »
I know that in Win2k they want 15 or 16% freed, so you can also try moving the data to another drive or burn it to DVD or whatever, if you have that option.  Win2k and XP may be rather similiar here.
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Re: hard drive fragmentation...
« Reply #5 on: December 24, 2004, 01:46:29 PM »
in XP is 15% because my external is now full up to 4% free...i need a new external  ::)
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