2006-09-01 23:37:47 · 14 answers · asked by tonz_speed 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Okay I love explaining this;
Remember when you were a child and you used to play with Lego
Well the big green flat blocks are your hard drive and the files are your smaller lego bricks
Windows places the files on the hard drive ad-hoc
What that means is its like you trying to fit your small bricks onto your big green brick, you put them where ever they fit.
Sometimes the bricks don't fit so they are broken apart into 'fragments' and set on the big green block where ever they will fit.
Defragmenting simply moves the bricks around so that they all fit on the green brick neatly and joins broken bricks together.
Defragmenting increases efficiency and allows fies to be placed on the hard drive quicker. It does not give you more or less space but requires enough space for the bricks to be moved around.
Hope that helped!!
2006-09-02 03:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The defragmenter software in windows is used for "organizing" files and programs in such a way that your computer will run faster with less lags. So it is important that you use Disk Defragmenter at least every 1-2 months along with scan disk and disk clean up to keep your system in shape.
2006-09-01 23:42:48 · answer #2 · answered by raynos13 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you start saving files on to a hard drive, your operating system has it pretty organised and can access them quickly. When files are deleted, it's only the reference point that is deleted - the file is still on the HD but the software can't find it. Saving more stuff now means that the new files will be saved on the free areas on the disk which may not be together - your files become "fragmented".
When loading a fragmented file, it takes longer as you have to find the individual fragments and put them together.
Defraging the HD allows you to put these fragmented files back together.
2006-09-01 23:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Tera 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It defragments your hard drive files....
after a time your drive becomes fragmented as new information is written to it , and as others are deleted/re-written..
The best way I have found to describe what fragmentation is like so.
Imagine you are reading a book ..on the first line there are very few words , the next line the same and so on and on ...it takes you much longer to read the book because you are considering the "gaps" in the lines ....the same goes for a PC to read information on the hard drive
hope my drivel helped !!!!!
2006-09-01 23:46:11 · answer #4 · answered by ec_sincity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simply put when you use your computer, the hard disk constantly writes and deletes data. Many times the files are written in bits and pieces. If you have a bigger capacity hard disk, it takes the computer a longer time to access data. A defragment software alligns the data so that your access speed is much better.
2006-09-01 23:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by noni_pa 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Files are sometimes too large to be stored in contiguous spaces on your hard drive. These files will be broken up and stored in various other available spots.
Defragmenter software brings fragmented files back together for faster use. WINXP has this softwarre
2006-09-01 23:43:38 · answer #6 · answered by Chuck 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you install some software on your PC, it takes some space in your harddisk, and install another software over it, then when you delete the first program, its space is empty, thus when you install or copy new software, it will take the empty space of the removed program then continue after it,
thus you need defragemnter, to take all the free space to the end of your harddisk, thus when you install new thing, it will be installed in one block>!
2006-09-01 23:53:17 · answer #7 · answered by Wish Master 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you write and delete from your hard drive,it writes data on any available space on HD which makes it slower to read and function correctly later. You use defragmenter to "put everything" in place.
2006-09-01 23:44:43 · answer #8 · answered by Razor1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you put programs etc in your computer it leaves little bits here and there.The defragmenter gets rid of all these un needed bits.
2006-09-01 23:44:04 · answer #9 · answered by Julie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your computer stores evrything it saves all over the place on your hard drive, sometimes it'll split up a file into different area's, it all makes your hard drive work harder.
when you de-fragment it, it all gets sqeezed into a smaller area and puts all the split up files together again.
means your hard drive works quicker because the reader part of it isn't darting around all over the place trying to read files.
2006-09-01 23:42:33 · answer #10 · answered by Mickenoss 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋