Hard disk fragmentation
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- Hello there. I recently aquired a HP Pavillion 522c desktop computor to program on. It works great, but one problem, I have to defrag 2-4:wtf: times a day with heavy fragmentation:wtf:. This not counting the original defrags after installing about 10 Gigs of software and updates. - Why does it fragment so easily? - Can it be fixed? Hard disk -Western Digital -60 GB ~Thanks in advandce
"Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death." ~Pink Floyd
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- Hello there. I recently aquired a HP Pavillion 522c desktop computor to program on. It works great, but one problem, I have to defrag 2-4:wtf: times a day with heavy fragmentation:wtf:. This not counting the original defrags after installing about 10 Gigs of software and updates. - Why does it fragment so easily? - Can it be fixed? Hard disk -Western Digital -60 GB ~Thanks in advandce
"Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death." ~Pink Floyd
Thisita wrote:
Why does it fragment so easily?
Fragmentation is caused by writing and deleting lots of files to disk, not by the disk itself.
Thisita wrote:
Can it be fixed?
No, not really. But it depends on what your system is doing. Reading/writing lots of files will increase the rate at which fragmentation occurs. But, fragmentation is a part of everyday life under NTFS. Your probably also worried about something that's very normal. What does the fragmentation report come up with as far as fragmentation %?
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- Hello there. I recently aquired a HP Pavillion 522c desktop computor to program on. It works great, but one problem, I have to defrag 2-4:wtf: times a day with heavy fragmentation:wtf:. This not counting the original defrags after installing about 10 Gigs of software and updates. - Why does it fragment so easily? - Can it be fixed? Hard disk -Western Digital -60 GB ~Thanks in advandce
"Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death." ~Pink Floyd
Thisita wrote:
- Why does it fragment so easily? - Can it be fixed?
It can be possibly be improved. It depends on the hard disk manufacturer and their implementation of S.M.A.R.T. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.[^] Most manufacturers these days have added intelligent disk writing to increase chances of writing to contiguous disk sectors. You should go into the BIOS and check if SMART has been disabled. It is possible that HP has hidden this BIOS setting or removed it completely. As the other Dave has stated, there is no way to completely prevent fragmented disk writes, there are no guarantees. -Randor (David Delaune)
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Thisita wrote:
- Why does it fragment so easily? - Can it be fixed?
It can be possibly be improved. It depends on the hard disk manufacturer and their implementation of S.M.A.R.T. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.[^] Most manufacturers these days have added intelligent disk writing to increase chances of writing to contiguous disk sectors. You should go into the BIOS and check if SMART has been disabled. It is possible that HP has hidden this BIOS setting or removed it completely. As the other Dave has stated, there is no way to completely prevent fragmented disk writes, there are no guarantees. -Randor (David Delaune)
Thanks - Well, it seems SMART capabilities(if any) are hidden, which I always thought were used for warning you about eminent hard disk failure -Fragmentation is said to be 19%, but the bars that MS gives us are 90% red
"Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death." ~Pink Floyd
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Thanks - Well, it seems SMART capabilities(if any) are hidden, which I always thought were used for warning you about eminent hard disk failure -Fragmentation is said to be 19%, but the bars that MS gives us are 90% red
"Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death." ~Pink Floyd
Look at the report, not the graphics. The graphic bar you see can only show you a very small percentage of the disk space. 19% isn't bad at all.
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007