I move an awful lot of large files among disks (both among partitions and physical disks, if it matters) and I'm concerned of having lots of defragmented files. It's kind of a pain in the ass that ...

say you have 2 drives stripped. piece 0 & 2 of a file will go on drive 0 and piece 1 & 3 will go on drive 1. pieces 0 & 2 on drive still need to be side by side for max performance and 1 & 3 also need ...

Improve the performance of XP and Vista--at least a little bit--by running its built-in disk defragmenter with your choice of command switches. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

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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Defragmenting your HP laptop is an useful computer maintenance task that restores scattered and disorganized files to improve performance. An HP laptop's hard disk becomes fragmented when you delete, ...

Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an editor for Ziff-Davis' Computer Select, back when CDs were new-fangled, and IBM's PC XT was wowing the crowds at Comdex. He spent more ...

"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...