POLL: How often do you defragment your harddrive??

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Atlantean

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I learned the hard way not to be connected to the internet when defragging my drives :( I lost everything on my drive, and have been scared to do it since, but I have put a new os on the comp recently like in december, so I am wondering how often I should do it.
 
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Jmmsbnd007

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Um... where's the once a day option? You really shouldn't do it any less than once a week.
 
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Originally posted by: Atlantean
I learned the hard way not to be connected to the internet when defragging my drives :( I lost everything on my drive, and have been scared to do it since, but I have put a new os on the comp recently like in december, so I am wondering how often I should do it.
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How did that happen, I'm curious?
 
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Atlantean

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Someone hacked into my comp, cause when you are defragging you are pretty much wide open. They deleted some key files, and it screwed up windows, then when I tried to reboot, I found a nice virus had made all the data unreadable, so I just reformatted the drive, all that was on there was mp3's but I did lose some save games for some games I play
 
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SnapIT

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Originally posted by: Atlantean
Someone hacked into my comp, cause when you are defragging you are pretty much wide open. They deleted some key files, and it screwed up windows, then when I tried to reboot, I found a nice virus had made all the data unreadable, so I just reformatted the drive, all that was on there was mp3's but I did lose some save games for some games I play
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de-what? i'm running free-BSD...
 
pillage2001

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Originally posted by: Atlantean
Someone hacked into my comp, cause when you are defragging you are pretty much wide open. They deleted some key files, and it screwed up windows, then when I tried to reboot, I found a nice virus had made all the data unreadable, so I just reformatted the drive, all that was on there was mp3's but I did lose some save games for some games I play
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Is there such a thing about loosen security when you're online while defragging??
 
silverpig

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Originally posted by: SnapIT
Originally posted by: Atlantean
Someone hacked into my comp, cause when you are defragging you are pretty much wide open. They deleted some key files, and it screwed up windows, then when I tried to reboot, I found a nice virus had made all the data unreadable, so I just reformatted the drive, all that was on there was mp3's but I did lose some save games for some games I play
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de-what? i'm running free-BSD...
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Exactly. I've never run a defrag on any of my linux installs.
 
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everyusernameistaken

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Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: SnapIT
Originally posted by: Atlantean
Someone hacked into my comp, cause when you are defragging you are pretty much wide open. They deleted some key files, and it screwed up windows, then when I tried to reboot, I found a nice virus had made all the data unreadable, so I just reformatted the drive, all that was on there was mp3's but I did lose some save games for some games I play
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de-what? i'm running free-BSD...
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Exactly. I've never run a defrag on any of my linux installs.
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why is that? :confused:
 
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Paulson

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Originally posted by: everyusernameistaken
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: SnapIT
Originally posted by: Atlantean
Someone hacked into my comp, cause when you are defragging you are pretty much wide open. They deleted some key files, and it screwed up windows, then when I tried to reboot, I found a nice virus had made all the data unreadable, so I just reformatted the drive, all that was on there was mp3's but I did lose some save games for some games I play
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de-what? i'm running free-BSD...
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Exactly. I've never run a defrag on any of my linux installs.
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why is that? :confused:
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Because there is no need to defrag on linux partitions (ext2 and what not) because they don't get fragmented.
 
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BMdoobieW

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Once a month on my own machines, whenever I remember with my family's machines....

BTW, defragging really works. I have a friend who upgraded from Win98 to WinXP, and soon afterwards, complained that Eudora would respond really slowly (like when scrolling through his inbox.) Because of this, he told me he was gonna go back to Win98. I couldn't let him do that. So all I did was a simple defrag and then Eudora worked just fine. His inbox was fragmented up the wazoo.
 
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whatson

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Exactly. I've never run a defrag on any of my linux installs.
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Linux writes files in one piece, but windows writes them in many pieces (fragments) ... Thats why EXT2/3 does not get fragmented and you don't need to defrag linux partitions. And thats why EXT partions (and Razerfs, or any other unix partions) are much better then Fat or NTFS.

I hope that M$ will fix this problem A.S.A.P. But it seems things aren't proceed well.

I defrag my NTFS at least twice a week.

And I use Diskeeper as a tool for this. It's better and more effective in defragmation. And the biggest advantage of this program is scheduling.
 
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