2006-11-04 00:11:57 · 14 answers · asked by mugsie91 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
actually they reccommend that you defrag once a month.
2006-11-04 00:17:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a good preventive maintenance procedure and rearranges the files for better performance. It likened to a secretary that pulls out a file and puts it behind the "Z" section of the filing system after doing this over a period of time, a lot of her files are not where they should be, they are behind the "Z" section of the file cabinet and not Even in alphabetical order. This really slows her productivity down. Defrag is the computer doing the same thing as the Secretary pulling all of te files out from behind "Z" and putting them back where they belong. It can speed up your system but may not be a great amount. While there are many ways to do this, the best and cheapest way to increase your computing speed is to add RAM memory
2006-11-04 08:44:38 · answer #2 · answered by John E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lets start with understanding what defragment does in plain words.
After you delete some files, you create some free space in your hard drive in the position that the files were deleted. At the end you end up with a disk filled up but with small little gaps. When you want to write something new, it might not be able to fit on a small gap all by itself so the hard disk writes part of it in one gap and part of it on another gap etc.
A defragment writes all data in the beginning of the disk leaving the free space at the end.
It is not a harmful procedure to your hard drive but dont over do it!
2006-11-04 08:54:36 · answer #3 · answered by str1der 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imagine two books, one with an index at the back and one without, and you have to look up information regularly in them.
In the book with an index, you find information quickly. In the book without, you have to thumb through many pages, taking up a lot of time to do it.
1. Which one is faster?
2. Which one causes less wear and tear on the _book_?
In both cases, it's the one with the index. Your hard drive is the same: when it's defragged, it reads, writes, and searches for data much faster. And because the heads and platters use magnets, every read write and search wears out the hard drive, so defragging a hard drive makes it last longer.
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2006-11-04 08:43:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you delete a file the whole file is still there except for the first letter of that file so when you defrag it 0's out that file to free up that space and then it moves the files that you use most and puts them towards the front of the drive to access them quicker the fastest way to something is a straight line defraging makes that straight line, if it was harmful windows wouldn't have put it in the systems tools
2006-11-04 08:22:15 · answer #5 · answered by zippo091 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its good for your computer, i do it once a week
this was taken from yahoo answers
Defrag, or disk defragmenter, is a software utility designed to help chronologically order the data on the hard disk drive. The theory behind defrag is to place each program together instead of scattered throughout the hard disk drive, allowing the read-write head to access the data faster on the hard disk drive.
2006-11-04 08:19:02 · answer #6 · answered by halicon2000 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it fixes your hd in such a way that the file segments are not scattered... it should make your computer slightly faster and there should be no harm in defragging your pc... just don't do it often. if you do it often enough, it can cause damage because defragging involves physical contact of machine parts to one another... to avoid scratches, etc. once every month or so should be fine...
2006-11-04 08:22:44 · answer #7 · answered by callistachan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope. it's good for your computer
The process of rewriting parts of a file to contiguous sectors on a hard disk to increase the speed of access and retrieval. When files are updated, the computer tends to save these updates on the largest continuous space on the hard disk, which is often on a different sector than the other parts of the file. When files are thus fragmented, the computer must search the hard disk each time the file is opened to find all of the file's parts, which slows down response time.
2006-11-04 08:16:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The defragmantation work the same way when you cleanup the mess in a room. It put every thing on the Hardisk in a proper way so that when your processor needs any thing it can access and find it quickly.
The result is fast computing.
so it is not harmful for your computer.
2006-11-04 08:20:07 · answer #9 · answered by Rising Star 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes , sometimes it creates Bad sector or damages hard disk or
some times it created cross link if power failure occurs during defrag
2006-11-04 08:18:54 · answer #10 · answered by ponniyincelvan 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋