Defragging hard drive is advisable to maintain disk and pc performance. But a lot of people defragment the disc being unaware that they do it wrong and bring damages to the hard drive. Here are some tips that you be supposed to know before you do it incorrectly.
1. Defragging disk is advisable but don’t overdo.
A lot of people want defragmenting can degrade the amount of} fragment. So they do it frequently. In fact, there is no need to defragment every other day. For the volumes that save the files that do not frequently experience writes and reads, you could defragment them once per two month. For the volumes which contain overmanytemporary, IE and download files, you can defragment them once per month.
Don’t overdo it! When you conduct defragmenting, the Disk Defragmenter would analyse each file in the hard drive and determine the file type. And then it organize the space for all the content. The process needs a lot of CPU usage and hard disk space. And it could cause wears and tears to the hard disk. If you overdo it, you can bring damages to the disc.
2. Delete all temporary files before defragmentation
Temporary files are normally stored at folder C:\WINDOWS\Temp . They are the key factors which bring about fragment. When you start defragmentation without deleting them. They will be analyzed and defraged by the Disc Defragmenter.
But when they are removed by Windows system, they leave discontiguous space in the hard disk. When other file are placed in those discontiguous space, there come the fragmentations. So you should delete all the temporary files before you defragment your hard disk.
In general, those two factors are where most people make mistake when they defragment their hard disk. And to be honest, Disc Defragment tool is not a really good and useful defragmenter. It cannot defrag the space that are encrypted or being used. That means it will leave some fragments in the disk. So I recommend you employ other defragmenter instead.
