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defrag question
If you stop defragging a disk halfway through does the defrag program
return the 'fragments' to their original positions before the current defrag session or does it just stop and leave the fragments where they are? In other words can you stop a defrag session and start again later at the same place you stopped? |
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On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 05:19:35 GMT, hawk wrote:
If you stop defragging a disk halfway through does the defrag program return the 'fragments' to their original positions before the current defrag session or does it just stop and leave the fragments where they are? In other words can you stop a defrag session and start again later at the same place you stopped? Whatever files have been moved, defragged, remain defragged, none of that work is undone. However, little changes may result in the optimized order of the defagged files changing, so when the defrag restarts later it may move many many files again, a LOT of reading/writing/time for relatively little benefit. Better to just let it run till finished, start it up when you know you'll be done using the system for a while... you really don't need to defrag all that often unless you have some extreme file activities going on, and if you do, you might consider a dedicated partition or two. |
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I just read an intesting article in PC worls. It said even a very bad
fragmented hard drive had no speed improvements after a drfag. They said defragging is highly over rated! "Ad" wrote in message om... In article , says... If you stop defragging a disk halfway through does the defrag program return the 'fragments' to their original positions before the current defrag session or does it just stop and leave the fragments where they are? In other words can you stop a defrag session and start again later at the same place you stopped? I think it leaves them where they are, after writing what it was writing when you stopped the defrag. But I do not think it continues where it left off, as it starts all over again. -- Adrian |
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