Defragmenting disk is necessary to preserve disc and computer performance. But a lot of people defragment the hard drive being unconscious that they do it incorrectly and bring impairments to the disc. Here are some instructions that you be supposed to learn before you do it wrongly.
1. Defragging hard drive is advisable but do not overdo.
A lot of people imagine defragging can degrade the qunantity of } fragment. As a result they do it repeatedly. Actually, there is no need to defrag every other day. For the partitions which store the files that do not often face writes and reads, you can defragment them once per two month. For the volumes that have overmanytemporary, IE and download files, you can defrag them once every month.
Don’t overdo it! When you conduct defraging, the Disk Defragment tool would analyse each file in the disk and judge the file type. And then it organize the space for all the data. This process needs too manyCPU usage and hard drive resources. And it can lead to wears and tears to the hard drive. If you overdo it, you can bring impairment to the disk.
2. Clean up all temporary files before defragmentation
Temporary files are normally saved at folder C:\WINDOWS\Temp . They are the main issues that lead to fragment. When you start defragmentation without cleaning up them. They will be analyzed and defraged by the Disk drive Defragment tool.
But when they are deleted by Microsoft windows, they leave discontinuous space in the disk. When other file are located in the discontiguous space, there come the fragmentations. So you should remove all the temporary files before you defrag your hard drive.
In a word, those two issues are where most people make mistake when they defragment their hard drive. And in my opinion, Disc Defragment tool isn’t a very good and useful defragment tool. It could not defrag the space that are encrypted or being used. That means it leaves some fragments in the disk. So I recommend you resort to other defragmenter instead.
