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Originally posted by uberdosis
But don't do it to much becaue it can corrupt your data from moving it around so much.
nonsense... If you move data around 1000 times there would be any more errors then when you only move it 1 time.
Although, and this is only in theorie and very nitpicking: every time you move data around there could occur an error. But in practice this is nonsense and above all, defragmenting even helps reducing these theoretical errors because your HDD heads don't have to move around so much anymore after the defrag.
Also, defragmenting moves each data only 2 times at max:
1) move data out of the way so other data can be put first
2) put data back in it's final location
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Originally posted by Chris.
I've never EVER noticed an increase in speed from doing a disk defrag.
If you don't notice much chances then either you don't use your HDD at full capacity (speed wise), or your system specs are the slowest link in the overall chain, or you don't do much file handline, or your HDD wasn't that fragmented to notice any slowdown.
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Originally posted by Chris.
If your system is seriously going very slowly, reinstall Windows or consider upgrading hardware components.
Reinstalling Windows is ALWAYS the very very last thing to try. Doing this as a first step is rather stupid and most likely will not make ANY difference (If it does, you aren't comparing the correct things; A clean copy of Windows will ALWAYS run faster then a Windows with other programs/stuff/etc. installed).
But we are seriously going off topic....
And I must say that I still don't understand what Lt.Col.DraGon exactly means as his first post doesn't make much (gramatical and PC logic sense)
what does he mean with "delete compress old files?":
- delete old compressed files?
- compress old files?
- delete old files?
- delete temporary files from compression programs?
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