I've heard stories that Disk Defragmenting can destroy your unit itself. How possible is that?
In my case almost every week/month i'm using it but it's not happening, thus my unit slows down. My other questions are why and how?
2007-10-04 12:31:05 · 9 answers · asked by mahkintaro 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
It is pretty safe. Only one file is moved at a time and the original is not deleted until the move is completed. I now have Norton 360 and it automatically does it in the background.
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2007-10-04 12:34:44 · answer #1 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given that defragmenters move data, it is always possible that something could go wrong and the data either become corrupted through an incomplete write (power outage, harddisk crash?). If the read/write/verify routines got corrupted, you could end up with lost data, or at worst a dead computer. BUT, defragmenters have been used for a long time, with minimal failures, so the risk is very low, but it is there.
I have heard of other utilities trashing a harddrive, but you will have to find someone else who knows of defragmenting going awry, because I don't.
2007-10-04 19:38:03 · answer #2 · answered by Sp II Guzzi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The defragmenter does its job best when its not interrupted by any other program while running, hence its best to run it in safe mode. The risk probably is if the power goes off while the defrag is taking place since its essentially moving file fragments around to put them together.
2007-10-05 05:33:51 · answer #3 · answered by jizmo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No disk defragment is actually health for your system. Yes you will notice a slow down but that because of system resources needed to do it. I defrag my pc's daily and I work in IT for 20+ years.
2007-10-04 19:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by usa2dav 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a computer technician and this is the first time I hear that.How the re arrangement of the files will destroy the file system?It is not possible ....believe me I do defragment every week on all of my computers for years
2007-10-04 19:37:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no a disk defrag make the system run faster i defrag my pc a few times and nothing happened if it destroyed your system microsoft would not make it a feature
2007-10-04 19:34:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the hard drive is already going bad defrag can finish it off just by the heavy use it puts to it.
2007-10-04 19:37:55 · answer #7 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as far as i know it dosent damage your computer and if your worries soo much go easy on how many times your using the defragmenter
2007-10-04 19:34:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it just catagorizes your files and folders. also gets rid of parcially deleted fragments.
2007-10-04 19:42:50 · answer #9 · answered by icedmoca4 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋