Defragmenting disk drive is advisable to preserve hard drive and pc performance. But a lot of people defrag the hard disk being unconscious that they do it wrong and lead to impairments to the hard disk. Here are some tips that you be supposed to know before you do it incorrectly.
1. Defragging disc is advised but do not overdo.
Too manypeople imagine defragging could decrease the number of} fragment. As a result they do it repeatedly. In fact, it’s not necessary to defrag every day. For the partitions that save the files that do not frequently experience writes and reads, you could defrag them two month a time. For the partitions that have overmanytemporary, IE and download files, you could defragment them once every month.
Don’t overdo it! When you conduct defraging, the Disk Defragment tool would analyse each file in the disc and judge the file type. And then it arrange the space for all the files. The process uses too manyCPU resources and disk resources. And it can lead to wears and tears to the disk. If you overdo it, you can bring impairment to the disk drive.
2. Delete all temporary files before you conduct defraging
Temporary files are normally placed at folder C:\WINDOWS\Temp . They are the key issues which lead to fragmentation. When you start defragmentation without deleting them. They would be analyzed and defraged by the Hard disk Defragmenter.
But once they are deleted by Operating system, they leave discontinuous space in the disc. When other file are located in those discontiguous space, there come the fragmentations. So you must delete all the temporary files before you defrag your disk.
All in all, those two factors are where most people make mistake when they defrag their disk. And to be honest, Disc Defragmenter is not a very professional and useful defragmenter. It could not defrag the space that are encrypted or being used. That means it leaves some fragments in the hard drive. So I advise you use other defragmenter instead.