Ah, defragmenting. Just the other day I happened to see a thread over at the Virtual Doctor forums (which I joined recently). It was about defragmenting.
I thought to myself, “I’ve had this current Windows install for just over a month now, and I haven’t defragged so far, I may as well do it now.” So I opened up disk defrag and told it to defrag my C:. HOLY FUCK it needed it. I had to defragment it THREE TIMES to get it looking half decent, and even then there were still quite a lot of gaps in the data, but at least the fragmented files were gone.
Anyhow, I took some screen shots of just how bad it was and how it gradually improved. Un, deux, trois.
Of course, then my comp fucked up when I was overclocking it and I had to restore a ghost image on the hard drive, so it’s significantlly cleaner now. But the moral of the story is, send me all your money. Oh, and defrag every so often.
i do defrag regularly, tho i don’t actually know what it really does, could you explain that to me? and i might send you a digital cake.
I don’t defrag, I’m a rotter like that. I’m scared of what my D:/ drive looks like to a defragger…
Bah. Know any decent programs?
Wikipedia can probably explain defragmenting better than I can. And Ben, there were a load of programs mentioned in that thread I linked to, but I just use the built in Windows one, it’s convenient and does the job well enough (so long as you run it about 6 times).
you call that fragged? i had my computer for over a year before i de-fragged it. sucker.