Is there any way to stop my computer from getting so fragmented?

[Mears]

I started messing around with large files and now my computer is gettng seriously defragmented. I checked today and my D: was at a whopping 51% fragmented. I knew it was at an unreal number because I've basically just been moving large files to different portions of the drive for the past few days, but I thought that was just rediculous. Then this morning I defragged my C: (7gb) with speed disk and after 40 minutes of use it was back up to 4% again. So I'm wondering what I can do to keep my drives from getting so fragmented when I'm moving files around.

 

[Priit]

What OS? What file system(s)? My ext2 file system in data HDD under linux got 4% fragmented after 2 years and I moved MANY big and small files around there.

 

[DN]

How many physical drives do you have..? What are their sizes and how are they partitioned..?

 

[Mears]

WinXP Pro NTFS
Drive 1 Maxtor 7200 RPM 40gb 7gb for C:\ 33gb for D:\
Drive 2 WD 7200 RPM 20.5gb for Linux

 

[DN]

How much space left on (partitions) C: and D:..?

 

[Mears]

There is hardly any space at all on either of the drives. Under a gig apiece. I'm getting a new drive soon.

 

[t4t3r]

well, you answered your own question. your D: drive is so fragmented because of its size. say you have two 500mb files on a 1gig partition and you move one, well, there went half the drive. that big empty space needs to be defragmented. get rid of that tiny partition unless there is a reason for it (i can't think of one). just use your two drives normally w/o partitions. seems like common sense to me...



t4t3r

 

[khtm]

<< well, you answered your own question. your C: and D: drives are so fragmented because of their size. when you have two 500mb files on a 1gig partition and you move one, well, there went half the drive. that big empty space needs to be defragmented. get rid of those two tiny partitions unless there is a reason for them (i can't think of one). just use your two drives normally w/o partitions. seems like common sense to me... >>



That's a bunch of BS.

Obviously you don't know how fragmentation works. :disgust:

BTW, 33gb is not a *tiny* partition.

-khtm-

 

[TheKub]

<<Is there any way to stop my computer from getting so fragmented?>>

Dont use it. Just let it idle and rack up up-time!

 

[DN]

<< There is hardly any space at all on either of the drives. Under a gig apiece. I'm getting a new drive soon. >>



I figured you didn't have a lot of room left.. Your OS must be thrashing like mad.. You need to either cleanup your drives or get a new one sooner, lol.. I hope you get more than just a 40Gb.. I'd put the 7/33 onto the new drive and use the 40Gb as a 2nd drive.. Don't partition your drives unless you want to run different OS's, imo..

 

[Mears]

Well I'm hoping to get a 100 gig. I'll partition that to 10-15gb and then the remaining will go to data and the 40 gb will also go to data. I like to keep the OS on seperate smaller partitions for backup purposes.