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[onmyway]

When I run a defrag on my win 2000 system it shows the blue section: contigious files as being the majority of the defrag. I've tried 3 different defrag programs and get the same results.
I do a lot of downloading but always have a firewall on and virus protection. Why are the results of my defrag 'contigious files'?
Is this something I should be concerned about?

 

[ImpetusEra]

Well, the purpose of defrag is to take all the data on the drive and make it contiguous. Contiguous means connected withut a break. If the data was fragmented it would have gaps in it. The more gaps the more searching the hard drive has to do. That takes additional time and causes the drive to wear faster. The results your getting is what you want.

 

[pweegar]

Also, if your hd was fragmented, not only would you have large gaps, you would also have big red blocks (fragmented files) which is bad.

 

[onmyway]

I don't know why I was thinking 'contagious' files were bad.Time for a vacation! Thanks for your input.