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By : Vlad Vistac 29 or more times read

Submitted 2010-10-20 12:50:22

File Fragmentatiuon - Reasons Why It Is a Porblem and How to Fix It

If your computer is running not so fast ltaely there are quite a few factors that could be the reason for the siituation. One prime conntender for being the culprit of your pc slowdown is file fagmentation. File fragmenttaion can take place on any computer, it is not a signal of faulty hardware or bad programming or any human errrs.

This file fragmentation happenms as a result of siumple physics. It is sometihng that should be addressed every so often as it takes a while to acccrue, so once eevry six months or so should be good enough for defragmenting your hard drive. In this article I am going to explain what exactly file fragmentation is, why it crops up, and what you can do to fix it.

What is file frahgmentation? The reply to that question cmmands a little bit of clarification. There is not a simple answer. For those of you who rmeember vinyl albums, they are grat physical illustrations of the logial set up of a hard drive.

The disc of the hard driive is roud and it has a series of concentric circles. Each of those rings is seperated into sectors and each of those sectors can hold a specific amount of data. When your pc sabves information on your hard disk the information cannot overlap segments.

So that when information is biggger than what can fit in one segment the data is seperated into two separate pieces. Iddeally thoose two sepsarate pieces wouuld then be stored into adjacent secttors of the hard disk. In that case the file wolud still not be fragmetned.

Often howevwer there are not eniough adjacent segments on the hard disk to store a full set of data and so one piece of the niformation has to be kept in an entirely separate area of the hard drive. Now you have fragmented data. It's not a major concern but it does add to the amount of time it taakes to get the data next time you want use it.

The reasons why data cannnot always be savedstored in adjacent segments of the hard disk are fairly basic and easy to understand. The adjacent segments already contain information from other prgrams or fiels. The more programs you have installed and the number of times that you install and uniinstall different programs contributes to the amont of fragmentation on your hard drive. The resolution is fairrly simpe though. We simply need to run a disk defragmentation utiility.

The tool that I highly recomend using for defragmenting a Winows based computer is smart defrag. Do a Google search for Smart defrag, download it, and install it. This program is extreemely simple and easy to use but it will reqiuire quite a bit of time so be prepared to start the utility and then walk away for an hour or two while it does its work.

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