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Essential Defragment Tips For Successful Defragmentation
Here are some useful disk defragment tips for you to help ensure you have a successful experience in doing defragmentation. - If your hard drive is very full (less than 10% empty space) then free up some space before you run the defragmenter. Defragmentation moves files around your hard drive and needs free space to be able to do this. There is a section in www.speed-up-your-slow-computer.com that is dedicated to freeing up hard drive space.
- Restart your computer immediately before you defragment your hard drive. This will reset a file that your operating system tends to expand, to its normal size and enable the defragmenter to run more quickly.
- It is ok to carry on working on your computer while it is defragmenting. Modern defragmenters are built with many safety features which mean files shouldn’t get corrupted. You may notice a bit of sluggishness depending on what you are doing as the defragmenter will need some system resources to do its work.
- Every now and then do a boot defrag. A boot defrag is when you defragment during start up. This will defragment files that cannot be defragmented while you are using your computer. However you need to buy a defragmenter to do a boot defrag. A boot defrag is also called an offline defrag whereas an online defrag is defragmenting when your computer is already started up. I recommend
PerfectDisk 2008 by Raxco
as it has a good boot defrag capability.
- If you are a heavy computer user, reading and writing a lot of files, then do an online defrag once a week and an offline defrag once a month. If you are an average computer user, then an online defrag once a month and an offline defrag once a quarter should be enough.
- If you want to defragment a very large hard drive, then I recommend you use
PerfectDisk 2008 by Raxco
. This is the best defragmenter for coping with extremely large hard drives. I’m talking here about drives that are 100 gig up to several terabytes (1 terabyte is the same as 1,000 gigabytes!!)
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