Defragmenting Your Hard-drive

Everyone complains that their PC is slow or for some reason is running games and programs slower and slower. There might be many reasons for this of course, but to keep your computer in top form defragmenting your hdd is in top of this list. It is very important to perform defragmentation of your system disk often for many reasons too. We detail everything you need to know in this post about defragmenting your hard-drive.

It is important to run defragmenatation, but not a lot of people do it. Because it takes time to do it or because the target disk is full. In other words defragmenting is not so popular and some may not understand why it is needed. Let us explain how to do it and why you must not forget to do it.

The defragemntation is very simple, you can find Windows integrated tool for that if you go: All Programs>Accessories>System Tools also by right-clicking the target disk, selecting the bottom properties option and tools tab.

There are also a huge amount of great free and expensive applications that do the same thing, maybe even a better job on defragmenting. Go ahead and look for one that might be better, recommend one if you know an app worth buying. Here we use Windows defragemtning tool, it already comes with windows and you don't have to register or download anything.

There is nothing hard or tech about it, you load the program, select a target drive, press analyze and press defragment, done. No it is not, even after an hour or two. It really depends on the size of your drive and the file amount that is there. Do it when you know you can leave your PC on for more that a few hours without anyone touching it.

You might not be able to defragment your disk at all, because at least 15% of free space on the target disk is required to move about all the files. Be Sure To Have At least 15% of your system disk free to perform defragmentation.

These are the reasons that makes defragmenting so unpopular and not a lot of people do it. Everyone should do it regularly, maybe as often as your virus scans. One time in two or three weeks, depending on how much you use your computer.

When a file is written to a hard-drive's partition, it is written in pieces, not in one go. Sometimes when you are doing multiple things these pieces get written on different places of the disk, to access it the read/write head has to go back and forth. Over time as more of these things happen your PC looks like it became slower.

What defragmenting does to your PC? It simply organizes all your files together so they can be read and wrote to faster. Simple defragmentation can help solve things like: slow document opening or slow file browsing, slow programs, but that won't solve slow internet!

We hope this post helps you, if your PC is slow and we hope now you understand why it is important to defragment your system drives often. Visit us soon for more great tips!