Computer Drive Defragmentation on Windows OS

By Andreas Lee

Your computer drive needs care to prevent any possibilities that may occur. You certainly do not want your hard drive crashed and data stored in your computer drive are lost, considering your data is worth even beyond the price of a hard drive itself.

If your hard drive is crashed, there is no 100% guarantee that your hard drive can be recovered and your data can be restored. Therefore from now on, give more attention to your computer hard drive. To prevent is better than to cure, isn’t it?

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One of the preventive steps you can do without software installation is through defragmentation which has been provided by Windows Operating System. You may not realize the existence of this software that has been provided by Microsoft to fill the empty gaps with data which is -in other word- compressing data to improve computer drive performance.

Before defrag your computer drive, make sure that there are at least 15% unused disk space in computer hard drive to run effectively. Steps to defrag your hard drive:

1. Enter ‘My Computer’

2. Right click on hard drive which you want to defrag

3. Select properties

4. Select ‘Tools’ tab

5. Press ‘Defragment Now’ button

6. In Disk Defragmenter windows, press ‘defragment’ button

In Disk Defragment windows, you can also choose which computer drive you want to defrag.

Defragmentation process begins with the analysis to check fragmented files, contiguous file, unmovable files, and free space, followed by defragment to compress these four types of file.

Necessary to note that during the defragmentation process takes place, don’t use any program, download, back up data, or shut down your computer. Defrag you computer drive once per month is enough, the process may take about 30 minutes. But if you did not defrag your computer drive for a long time, the consequence is the process can take a very long time, about 10 hours or maybe a day.

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