What does it remove? What will be different? Why do people do it? What will have to picture files? Do I need to save anything I don't want to lose to a disk?
2007-01-17 15:13:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
defragment wont delete any of your file
it just restructure your file inside your harddisk.
2007-01-17 15:18:01 · answer #1 · answered by kokfun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
imagine you have a new closet and you start buying new clothes etc. so u find a nice place in there and hang them. you buy a pair of nikes and finda a place for them in there too. now imagine you want to retrieve your nikes no problem they are a quick find. now imagine 2/3 years later your closet is so full and you live on about 100 sneakers nikes, reeboks whatever. somehow you just find a little place and position a shoe in there and the other one over here. now you want to get a particular pair of nike. it's not as fast as it used to be when you had only one pair, right? probably you have one shoe over here and another one....omg it must be in here somewhere mh... that's how your pc hard drive ends up looking like in time. eventually the pc will store your files in parts where it finds the next little space to do so until the whole file is stored. so a file can be scattared all over the place. so next time you call for the file it takes alittle longer cause the pc has to reassemble the file from different locations. so one saturday you decide to rearrange your closet so everything is ez to locate again. you are defragmenting your closet if i can borrow the term from your pc, got it?
now to answer your Q?s
so it does not remove anything just rearranges files, makes your pc a happy pc dealing with an organized closet i mean hard drive. Why do people do it? some do some don't. but it's a good idea to defrag once a month. and yes you have to save stuff you don't want to lose. to a hard disk or external media like a usb jumpdrive then it's portable too and safe. What will have to picture files? i don't get this Q? sorry.
2007-01-18 00:20:28 · answer #2 · answered by hnm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you do things on your hard drive, a lot of bits of information gets moved around. Some times, these bits of information that all come from this one program get moved around so much that it breaks up into a lot of "fragments." Whenever you want to run this program, the computer must retrieve these fragments first before running. Because it's scattered throughout, this slows down the computer and makes the processor work more. Defragmenting undos this and puts the fragments all together so when you run the program, it should run much faster. Most people normally defragment their drives in succession, meaning more than once to get the full effect. If you haven't ever defragmented your drive, it's probably wise to do it at least twice. You SHOULD get noticeable results. And don't worry, this won't delete/remove anything or make you lose a disk.
2007-01-17 23:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by Jack 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS and subsequently Windows stores data into the first available area of the disk, whether or not the entire file will fit there. So whatever is left over goes into the next vacant area of the disk, and so on. Consequently, when you use your computer and add and delete files, you may have lots of file "fragments" all over your hard drive. Let's say you have a journal file and you add entries every day. YOu could create many many fragments, all of which have to be sequenced and accounted for. So in loading that particular file, searching for and loading numerous fragments can slow down your computer response a lot.
What the defragmenter does is combine all these fragments of files and stores them in complete contiguous files. Your hard drive has to search for fewer fragments and thus your computer operates more efficiently.
Think of it as rearranging your garage, putting all the tools in one area, the garden supplies in another, and so on.
2007-01-17 23:33:25 · answer #4 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you access files on your computer, they sometimes break apart. What defragmenting does is it takes all of the fragment of the individual files and put the fragments together as a complete file.
While the files are fragmented, it takes more time for you computer to locate & combine them together in order to operate versus having them all together as one file (the way they're supposed to be).
No need to take any actions, no need to worry about losing anything. This is a DOS function that is designed to do just this without causing any malicious affects.
2007-01-17 23:24:03 · answer #5 · answered by R C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defragmenting takes information that may be spread out over a hard drive and reorganizes it so it is mostly in one area of the drive. It usually speeds up your computer a little bit because when your computer is searching for information on your hard drive it doesn't have to look so far or jump around several places to get the information it needs to load up.
2007-01-17 23:20:48 · answer #6 · answered by tweaver001 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defragmenting your drive rearranges your files on your disk so that they are in order. You don't need to worry about losing anything when doing this.
2007-01-17 23:17:43 · answer #7 · answered by The Master 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
defrag is basically like cleaning your bookshelf. imagine your bookshelf all messy nothing in alphabetical order and you come along and defrag everything you clean it up and you alphabetize your books now you can find everything really easy.. this is what defragment does to a harddrive it cleans it up so finding files and folders is a snap.
2007-01-17 23:22:51 · answer #8 · answered by ininjai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋