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Can this be right?

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JohnPaul

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I just went to defrag my hard drive, and Norton said my hard drive was 65% fragmented. Now, that wouldn't be totally unbelievable, but for the fact the drive is only a week old. I will say though that I believe I had a virus and think I got rid of it earlier today. Also, my computer was slowing to a snails crawl earlier, so I opened up task manager and found my cpu usage at 99%, and MSI's color monitoring program causing all that cpu usage. Anyhow, to the question at hand: Is my week old 120gig Maxtor really 65% fragmented, or could it be the virus I thought I got rid of?
 
I think since its a new drive, you havn't even touched alot of the diskspace. Whats there to defrag if nothing has ever been on those sectors?

EDIT: I am not a harddrive expert, just my personal assumption.
 
So are you saying you don't think it was actually fragmented to that extent, or are you saying the opposite? Oh, btw, I finished the defrag and it is now under 1% fragmented, so I guess it WAS fragmented that much, although I find that quite odd. All I can think is that the virus I had caused some damage to my file structure. That'll teach me to turn off NAV, EvAr!!
 
If the drive is a week old, then odds are you've put a lot of stuff on it, like an operating system.... in which case, that would cause the kinda fragmentation you're talking about.
 
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