Tag: defragment

121 Should I defragment my SSD? 2016-11-28T15:23:59.340

88 What does "Optimize Drives" do in Windows 8? 2012-09-25T03:02:03.910

58 Should I defrag an SSD drive? 2013-05-29T05:51:48.283

46 Do ext4 filesystems need to be defragmented? 2013-01-15T21:20:48.253

39 Why can't you defragment Solid State Drives? 2009-07-15T13:29:57.293

37 Do SSDs get fragmented, and if they do, is that an issue? 2010-01-17T23:40:34.053

29 In linux, how do you check if a disk is fragmented? 2012-09-15T13:06:58.807

28 How do you defragment the MFT on an NTFS disk? 2011-07-27T23:29:56.043

27 Why did defragmenting C drive increase my free disk space by 10 GB? 2011-07-07T19:35:03.370

21 Is defragging relevant to improving disk performance anymore? 2009-07-15T23:20:45.967

20 Do I need to run defrag on an SSD? 2010-10-18T20:11:56.407

18 Why do disks fragment? 2011-06-04T00:55:29.140

18 Is it bad to defragment a USB Flash Drive? 2011-09-05T17:52:25.943

18 Should I defrag the hard drive running on a Virtual Machine? 2012-02-09T17:50:08.903

17 Windows 8 Defragmenter? 2011-09-15T04:54:57.163

17 SSD: "The volume is too fragmented to complete this operation" 2014-12-14T22:07:29.473

17 How many passes does Defrag take in Windows 10? 2015-08-29T15:33:41.203

16 Does Defragmenting really help? 2009-08-18T00:35:03.740

13 What does a defrag actually do? 2009-07-27T13:31:58.737

13 How do defragmenting programs work? 2010-06-22T11:47:30.853

12 Looking for an alternative to the Windows defrag utility 2009-07-15T21:55:53.147

11 Does Windows 7 actually defragment an SSD drive if you tell it to? 2013-05-29T11:18:08.383

11 What happens if I stop defragmentation? 2013-09-25T21:05:00.987

10 Does downloading/copying files simultaneously promote fragmentation? 2010-08-13T20:59:13.633

10 What block allocation algorithm does NTFS use? 2011-04-24T15:56:41.310

9 Do I need to defragment Mac OS X? 2009-08-03T03:02:52.287

9 Defrag Terms Description 2017-08-14T09:05:11.460

8 Can Windows Defrag while Laptop is Closed? 2009-08-18T15:18:30.497

8 Do I need to manually defrag a Windows 7 PC? 2010-10-17T03:36:03.987

8 Why does Windows Defragmenter do nearly nothing on a disk with 23% empty space? 2011-09-09T21:53:17.837

8 How can I tell if one defrag utility is better than another? 2012-07-14T15:12:30.510

8 Avoiding extreme fragmentation of compressed system images on NTFS 2013-12-26T12:24:05.843

7 Windows XP scheduled tasks and defragmenting? 2009-09-04T06:57:22.257

7 When is the data in the journal written to the disk? 2011-08-28T13:58:40.993

7 Can't shrink a data partition on a Windows 8 computer 2013-04-16T06:32:20.457

7 How to prepare SSD drives for shrinking partitions in Windows? 2016-05-12T02:19:27.320

6 How to measure performance gain with defragmentation? 2009-07-28T20:42:36.813

6 Is it safe to edit files during the defragmentation process? 2011-04-01T20:31:42.563

6 Is there any way to defrag a bootable XP hdd so all the free space is at the end of the drive? 2011-05-15T15:39:22.983

6 Windows 8 will not defrag or analyze system hard drive 2013-03-25T19:53:02.720

5 Does a fixed size Virtual Machine file (vmdk, etc..) become fragemented? 2009-11-23T17:46:23.533

5 Is it possible to defrag the hard disk without admin rights? 2010-12-02T01:58:18.057

5 Does anyone know if it's 'normal' that you can't defrag an Outlook .ost file? 2011-05-10T18:47:47.773

5 Disk fragmentation on Linux 2011-06-12T21:15:38.847

5 Why is disk fragmentation measured as a percentage? 2011-12-05T12:54:33.013

5 How do I defragment Windows paging file 2014-12-21T10:36:04.753

4 Defragment a file or folder? Windows 7 2009-11-23T17:22:08.573

4 Fault with disk de-fragmentation on Windows 7 using various tools 2010-02-17T08:59:23.240

4 Why is my hard drive still fragmented after I run defraggler? 2010-08-27T19:03:12.957

4 What's the fastest application for defragmenting NTFS? 2010-09-02T09:28:28.980

4 Auto defragmentation of SSD 2010-10-18T08:14:04.587

4 Defragment before Windows reinstall? 2011-02-14T09:35:24.463

4 Does 'defrag C: /b' really work for Windows boot optimization? 2011-05-10T17:44:00.333

4 what's the rate of return of defragmenting our hard disk? 2011-07-13T05:34:35.240

4 Gracefully kill defrag.exe when run in command prompt 2011-08-08T01:17:07.203

4 Cleaning and housekeeping Linux computer hard disk 2011-08-10T13:11:23.187

4 Unknown volume listed under Windows defragmenter 2011-10-02T15:36:43.583

4 In a multi-boot setup, does defragmenting from one OS affect the whole drive, or only its partition? 2011-12-22T17:46:17.843

4 How to defrag a folder to make sequential file access faster 2012-01-09T21:48:45.403

4 Can you defrag an encrypted file system 2013-05-09T03:38:11.323

4 How to defragment a large TrueCrypt volume that has barely any free space 2013-05-13T19:58:59.413

4 Contiguous physical allocation of a set of files in linux filesystem (ext4) 2013-11-11T05:56:20.913

4 Windows 8 wrongly detects my Raid1 HDD as Solid state disk 2014-07-15T16:34:05.787

4 Does Windows 8.1 prevent defragmentation from a SSD even in the event of running by mistake defrag on command prompt? 2014-08-09T14:29:01.597

4 High response times in HDD. MFT, fragmentation or even halted disk? 2014-10-21T22:22:17.363

4 Windows 10 "optimize drives" shows SSD as "hard disk drive" 2015-11-29T16:14:25.500

4 Running Windows disk defragmentation on boot in Windows 10 2017-06-24T10:59:57.227

3 Get Fragmentation of a Drive on Vista? 2009-07-18T23:06:45.543

3 Is it normal that XP's defrag programm will take hours and do only a small part of the job? 2009-09-18T09:40:29.120

3 What are "Excess Fragments" in defragmenting a hard drive? 2009-11-06T08:52:00.003

3 Is there a way to shutdown the computer after defrag with the builtin Windows 7 defrag tool? 2010-01-20T18:15:02.530

3 Is it Safe to Defragment your Computer when you have low disk space 2010-08-31T14:14:37.260

3 Requirements when defragmenting an external hard drive 2011-04-29T04:00:51.727

3 Defrag and symbolic links in Windows 7 2011-09-05T21:17:44.060

3 What should I do with a badly fragmented disk? Defrag or copy to another drive? 2011-09-09T15:10:06.890

3 Defragmenting a large amount of files (35GB) over night 2011-12-17T23:26:09.317

3 Does Disk Defragmenter continue if I close the window? 2012-04-17T14:10:39.983

3 Is running daily defrag bad? 2012-04-20T14:35:39.740

3 USB Stick Not Contiguous 2012-05-11T19:51:55.973

3 Improve performance of RAID SSDs (without TRIM) with periodic disk defrag? Lack of TRIM even important? 2012-06-26T17:22:15.567

3 Can't resize my drive, because there are unmovable files at the end 2012-07-16T22:54:45.173

3 Can constant defragmentation damage a regular hard drive? 2012-11-04T15:50:35.413

3 Defragsvc service causes high CPU load when notebook is idle on Windows 8 2013-02-26T01:09:46.173

3 O&O Defrag: How do you auto-shutdown after defragging a hard drive? 2013-03-01T17:30:34.703

3 What does the percentage in Disk Defragmenter Represent? 2013-04-30T08:11:57.133

3 Windows 7 laptop freezes after an hour 2013-10-03T15:23:03.157

3 Is it bad to defrag a ssd? Or just pointless? 2014-01-01T10:34:35.113

3 how to fully consolidate freespace on a defragmented HD 2014-01-04T09:42:27.723

3 Consolidation of Free Space on Ext4 2014-02-04T09:43:32.483

3 "Access is denied" to Admin when using Sysinternals Contig to defrag the $LogFile metadata file 2014-12-20T21:44:38.133

3 Windows 8.1 thinks my partitions are SSDs 2015-01-22T06:24:36.030

3 How does Windows calculate the fragmentation percentage? 2015-03-05T15:59:46.333

3 How do I Defrag/Optimize a Windows 8.1 Volume which has no Drive Letter? Does it matter? 2015-09-19T22:12:10.423

2 What's a good free defragmenting tool for a VM? 2009-07-15T16:13:38.850

2 How often should I defragment drives formatted as NTFS? 2009-07-15T16:50:10.510

2 Why defragging should be manually started in Windows XP? 2009-07-20T06:29:33.333

2 Why does MyDefrag take so long to Fast Optimize? 2009-07-22T14:30:07.047

2 Defragmentation and 15% minimum space with Windows XP 2009-11-26T15:09:55.877

2 Boot Camp fails to create a Windows partition because it can't move files 2009-12-03T17:41:53.117