Imagine the following: you create a word document and save it. The document is split into tiny bits and accessed as such. At first, the bits are stored next to each other — the file is saved in a ...

Defragmenting your hard drive can be good or bad for the device depending on what kind of hard drive you're using. Generally, you want to regularly defragment a mechanical Hard Disk Drive and avoid ...

Disktrix's $30 utility lets you defragment hard drives and other storage devices a little or a lot--and view the contents of individual drive clusters, among other options. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

Difficult to defragment a hard disk that contains your booted operating system. Use a boot floppy or cd-rom, and try running the defrag utility from another hard disk or media.

Although many users have heard the term “defragging a drive,” a surprising number don’t know why it’s necessary or how to do it. Fortunately, this built-in Microsoft Windows tool is small, effective ...

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This excellent defragger has lots of options and smarts…and it actually improves SSD performance (at the expense of a large number of writes). With smarter file systems and faster disks and PCs, file ...

Have you tried putting the pagefile ( SWAP ) onto another disk?<P>Can Win2K defrag in SAFEMODE??? - have not tried it actualy?<P>I had Connection lost at first, but I always keep the PAGEFILE on ...