Saturday, July 31, 2010

How to Defragment Your Hard Disk Drive

File system fragmentationImage via Wikipedia
Defragmentation is one of the most important utility tool in windows for computer maintenance.
This tool optimises the fragmented parts on  hard disk .
Before getting into how to Defragment lets just now about Fragmentation

What is fragmentation? 

Fragmentaton is a phenomenon in which storage space is used inefficiently, reducing storage capacity and in most cases performance.
Fragmentation occurs naturally when you use the hard disk drive usually  through doing basic tasks like deleting, modifying, and creating files abruptly.

Defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of Fragmentation  in hard disk and eventually saving the space in hard disk.


How to  Defragment
Before starting disk fragmenter close all programs ,Remove temporary internet files for better results
Steps:  

*Click Start
 *Select  All Programs
*Click on Accessories
*Click on System Tools
* Run Disk Defragmenter

*select the drive which you want to defragment and start analyse
*Then start Defragmentation 



Defragmenting may take a while juts be patient till it comes


After the completion of process you will notice that some memory is been saved.




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