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dik

dik

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Jul 18, 2001
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My one 4T hard drive is partitioned into drives D:, E:, and F:. I recently checked drive D: and it was badly fragmented. There are no program applications on drive D:, only text, source code, and software that can be installed, but isn't (a backup of different versions of software).

I created a folder on Drive E: and copied the entire contents of Drive D: into it. I erased drive D:, reformatted drive D:, and copied the contents from the folder on Drive E: back to Drive D:.

I had understood that the files would be copied, in a contiguous manner, completely de-fragmented. I ran Piriform's Defraggler, and. it started de-fragging drive D: as if it was badly fragmented.

Can anyone offer an explanation?

Dik
 
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Chris:
"he was telling me about a new file system"... should have been just 'a file system'... I added the new; I hadn't heard of it.

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An SDD has only so many writes that can be done to memory before it wears out. That number is large, but there, so it is strongly recommended that you never allow automatic or manual Defrag to happen. It doesn't speed up access and wears out the drive much faster.

Bill
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