windows 8.1 fragged files

[pegasis]

Hello

I have approx 9.9 GB of fragmented files.
The size keeps growing weekly.

I have tried several ways to defrag; defraggle, smart defrag, etc

I these some tool to defrag these files and get my 9GB of HD back

 

[Burpo]

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/mydefrag.html

 

[corkyg]

It might be useful to determine what is causing all the fragmentation. Some common causes are immoveable system files, the page file, hibernation files, and possibly some software.

Fragmentation does not normally cause data loss, but merely slows down data access on spinner drives. If you go to SSD, you can almost forget about fragmentation.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hello

I have approx 9.9 GB of fragmented files.
The size keeps growing weekly.

I have tried several ways to defrag; defraggle, smart defrag, etc

I these some tool to defrag these files and get my 9GB of HD back

I don't get what you are asking? You want to re-claim your 9GB of HDD space? It's currently used by files; you would have to delete those files to get that space back.

Fragmented space is NOT wasted space, it's taken up by files.

Fragmentation is really only a performance problem, when frequently-accessed files are fragmented, and on a HDD.

 

[LTC8K6]

8.1 defrags your drive on a schedule, but you can also do it manually.

Do you have the defrag (optimization) set up on a schedule in Win8.1?

Have you tried the manual defrag (optimization) in Win8.1?

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/improve-performance-optimizing-hard-drive

 

[Ketchup]

It almost sounds like the OP is talking about one of those optimizer programs that misleads you in order to get you to buy a full version.

pegasis, please tell us where you are seeing this information, and what problem you are actually having, not the problem that some program is telling you about.

 

[Mike64]

I don't get what you are asking? You want to re-claim your 9GB of HDD space? It's currently used by files; you would have to delete those files to get that space back.

Fragmented space is NOT wasted space, it's taken up by files.

^ This.

To expand a little on what VirtualLarry wrote, even with an absolutely "perfect" defragmentation, you could at best get back only a (very) small percentage of the space currently being taken up by the fragmented files, by "scrunching" them into a slightly more efficient shape (to grossly oversimplify things). Computer files of any significant size are always stored in "pieces", rather than as a single continuous string of data on the hard drive. "Fragmented" just means those pieces have been moved around in an inefficient manner. "Defragmenting" doesn't delete anything, it simply puts the pieces of the files back into a more sequential order, which shortens the time it takes a program to access them. (Because of the way data is stored, you may get back a small amount of usable space, but in the scheme of things, not enough to worry about.)

In this specific case, unless the space is being used by a relatively small number of very large files, I just can't imagine what could possibly be causing such rapid re-fragmentation in just one week, even with heavy computer usage, so the basic situation sounds very suspicious and I suspect the others are correct, that the report of the defragmentation is in fact bogus.

 

[VirtualLarry]

It almost sounds like the OP is talking about one of those optimizer programs that misleads you in order to get you to buy a full version.

pegasis, please tell us where you are seeing this information, and what problem you are actually having, not the problem that some program is telling you about.

I suspect the others are correct, that the report of the defragmentation is in fact bogus.

Insightful, guys. I too want to find out what program is reporting this. I wonder if it's one of those third-party "optimizer" / "speedup" / "tuneup" programs, that pops up when you boot the PC, and then purports to do something, then claims that you "need" the services of the "full" program, and wants you to pay $30 for it.

Often distributed / bundled silently with codec packs, movie "rippers", etc.

If so, go to www.malwarebytes.org, download their free version, scan, and remove the PUP.