What is Defragmentation? What Defrag Tool Should I Use?
- September 12, 2009
- Posted by: Craig Chamberlin
- Category: Uncategorized
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Defragmentation is an intimidating word even to those who are in the geek world. Today I explain what it means to have a fragmented hard drive and discuss why it is even important. Hard drive defragmentation will likely not cause a huge increase in your computers speed, but hey, every little bit counts doesn’t it? Defragmentation is not a new idea, in fact, the defragmentation utility was built into the windows operating systems of the past – along with the scandisk utilities. However, there have been huge advances in the efficiency and effectiveness of defragmentation over the years.