Q A friend of mine suggested that I "defragment" my computer every once in a while. He says it will boost performance, but he also said it will move my data around. I tend to be very organized as to ...

File fragmentation is one of the constants of Microsoft’s, and other, operating systems. On a brand-new drive, the first files written are all written to contiguous parts of the drive, making for the ...

I have a WD 120 gig 7200rpm hd thats my main drive. I guess my scheduled defragging using norton systemworks has been slackin or something because somehow my disk is 97% fragmented. which explains why ...

Win2K says "no" to defragging any NTFS volume with >4K cluster sizes. How can I get this drive defragged, short of going out and buying something like Norton Utilities? I am going to hate uninstalling ...