Fragmented files, contiguous files, unmovable files, describe each one.
2006-10-22 04:51:08 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Not a problem. Fragmented files represents the files which are stored in multiple parts (fragments) across the drive. These are the ones the defragmenter is moving about to try and get all together end to end. It's trying to make each file contiguous...
Contiguous files are intact files where they are in one piece, end to end. These files are much more easy and quick for the hard drive to read because they are only referenced in one location rather than split up and dotted across the drive when they're fragmented. For this reason, contiguous files don't require so much read time from the hard drive because it doesn't have to look all over the place to piece files together.
'Contiguous' is how you want your files to be, ideally.
Unmovable files are files that are in use by the system, such as your virtual memory page file. This file is usually very large - it should be 150% the size of the RAM you have installed in your system.
Below is a source article on defragmentation you might be interested to read. Also, it's worth considering a different program to defragment your hard drive, such as Diskeeper which can schedule defragmentations, and also run itself before bootup when the page file can be defragmented as well. There's a link to their website below also.
I hope this helps answer your question.
2006-10-22 04:53:02 · answer #1 · answered by Alasdair P 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Fragmented files - files that are still fragmented are large files that have small segments of them scattered on your disk
Contiguous files - files that are contained together on your disk. This makes access to them faster. These files have been DEfragmented
Unmovable files - system files that cannot be moved, so if they are fragmented, you can't do it from this system. You can MOVE this drive into a different computer as a SLAVE drive, then defragment it from the other system. But this is probably not necessary.
Good luck
2006-10-22 04:54:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Fragmented are files that are scattered (entire programs are not necessarily all in the same area of your hard drive, pieces are stored in different areas, defrag(ment) puts the files all together to increase speed and efficiency.
Contiguous means files that are already all together
Unmovable is self explanitory, the computer cant move them for whatever reason, not totaly sure why
2006-10-22 04:55:28 · answer #3 · answered by mrbait33 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is what I think: fragmented files are those whose parts are in different places on the hard drive, so the point of defragmentation is to get those pieces together to free up more hard drive space. Contiguous files are those that already are in one piece. Unmovable files are those that can't be altered.
2006-10-22 04:54:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fragmented files are those that are still dotted around the harddrive, probably inefficiantly
Contiguous files are those inorder i.e. file-part1 is next to file-part2 etc
unmovable files are those that are umm eerrr well unmovable - they have to be at that location
2006-10-22 04:55:14 · answer #5 · answered by cool_clearwater 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
some .files on the hdd cant be move when you defrag
2006-10-22 04:54:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋