Defragmentation is the process that reduces the amount of fragmentation on a hard disk drive.
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Windows 8 will not defrag or analyze system hard drive
I recently bought a new laptop that runs windows 8. It has been about a month and I wanted to clean the system up a bit to keep it running smooth. I tried to defrag the system hard disk drive but when ...
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Defragging a mac with Drive Genius 3
I've heard many times over that OSX's system for handling files does away with the need to defragment my HDD unlike in Windows. However, I tried out Drive Genius 3 and it shows that 75% of my HDD ...
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Windows Server 2008 defrag log?
Is there a log file for Windows (Storage) Server 2008 built in defragmenter? I can not find a log file, event ID, or anything that gives a reference to the status of the defragmenter.
From the ...
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Defragsvc service causes high cpu load whe notebook is idle on Windows 8
When notebook is idle, defragsvc service starts to doing some weird things and causes high cpu load. This is not regular defragmentation job, since all disks (both ssd and hdd) are not fragmented.
I ...
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Windows XP scheduled task not running at appointed time and triggering on login
I have a scheduled defrag task on my Windows XP machine to wake up the computer and run at 3:00am every day. Then I have two other scheduled tasks, one to reboot the machine after the Defrag at ...
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Stubborn system file will not budge from the end of drive, cannot shrink partition
I'm trying to shrink my Windows 7 partition on my 400GB HDD down to about 200GB to dual boot Ubuntu, and I have consolidated all my data and defragged a number of times with different programs (PD12, ...
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How do you get more detail out of the automated disk defragger?
It is somewhat nice that Microsoft decided to automate the disk defragger. But today my system seemed kind of slow so I thought I would run the Analyze portion to get a report particularly on the ...
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Moving data to lower sectors on an SSD without defragging
I bought an Intel SSD drive a while back and now I want to dual-boot with it. But for some reason there are sectors near the end of the drive filled and I can’t seem to find a way to remove the data ...
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Does a hard drive “working hard”, i.e. when defragmenting or otherwise continuously active, significantly affect a laptop's temperature?
Trying to diagnose and fix an overheating Acer 5735 laptop, running speedfan and doing general workload to try and cause the overheat conditions.
I notice that windows xp is badly fragmented according ...
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Windows XP: Disk Cleanup: File takes a long time to access
I recently ran Disk Cleanup (with the "compress old files" option) and Disk Defragmenter on a PC with Windows XP. This computer was purchased in 2004, and was a "middle of the road" computer at the ...
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Extra Volumes appearing after using MyDefrag
After using MyDefrag, when I start the defrag again, two new drives have appeared - with very odd names.
They are both named the same thing:
\\?\Volume{WhatLooksLikeAGUID}
Note the Guid (and hence ...
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Hot File Clustering with multiple partitions
I'm planning a performance-oriented clean install of OS X 10.6 and I was wondering if the hot file clustering feature will exists only on the boot partition or if there will be one for each partition ...
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Windows 8 defrag schedule ambiguous
Windows 8 introduced a new dialog, called "Optimize Drivers", in which they have put a "Scheduled optimization" part.
We can now choose a schedule for the optimization, but it is unclear to me what ...
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15 GB of unmovable files mysteriously created by extending Windows 7 system partition to the left
I had a my system partition (C) that was running out of space due to an extra partition I created to dual-boot Windows 8. After trying Windows 8, I've decided I prefer Windows 7, so I went about ...
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Is it necessary to reboot after defragmenting an external drive when using Windows 7?
It's my understanding from many years ago, that it is imperative to reboot after defragmenting . Is this still true for an external drive? I'm guessing that this would hold true for another ...
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Why I cant' defrag my computer?
I tried to stard defrag in many way (start menu, run dialog and so on), and never would start. So I tried trough command line and what I get when I run defrag command is:
Parameter is not correct ...
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Moving swapfile.sys when Defragmenting Windows Partition
I am trying to defrag the hard drive partition that Windows is running on so I can shrink the partition and create a second one. I have cleared off almost 400GB (which will allow space for an ideal ...
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Can I defrag a Smart Response Accelerated Disk
I have a Sata disk accelerated by an SSD disk.
How can I defrag the Sata disk?
Because the acceleration takes place at driver level, there is no way for the defragmentation utility to defrag a ...
