{"id":1154,"date":"2008-04-09T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2008\/04\/defragmenting-your-hard-drive\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T08:32:00","slug":"defragmenting-your-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/2008\/04\/defragmenting-your-hard-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Defragmenting Your Hard Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for your friendly reminder. If you haven’t done it lately, you need to defragment your hard drive. This should be done at least monthly. To learn what it’s all about, scroll down for the gory details. To just defrag and move on, the instructions are here if you need them.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Defragmenting hard drive (C:)<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Click on Start – Programs – Accessories – System Tools – Disk Defragmenter<\/li>\n
  2. Click the Defragment button.<\/li>\n
  3. If you have less than 15% of your hard drive free, it will ask if you’re sure you want to defrag now anyway. Click Yes.<\/li>\n
  4. (If it’s much less than 15%, you may want to delete some unneeded larger files or file folders (and empty the Trash) or else run the Defrag program a second time.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    OR<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Open My Computer<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Right click on C:<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Select \u201cproperties\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Click on tab labeled \u201cTools\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Under \u201cDefragmentation\u201d select
      \n \u201cDefragment Now\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. When the service opens first
      \n select \u201cAnalyze\u201d. After this runs it will tell you whether or not the
      \n drive needs to be defragmented. If it does simply select the defragment
      \n option.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      <\/h2>\n

      What is file fragmentation<\/h2>\n

      Sometimes when you install a program or create a data file, the file ends
      \n up chopped up into chunks and stored in multiple locations on the disk. This
      \n is called fragmentation<\/i>.<\/p>\n

      What makes this happen?<\/p>\n

      When you first install your operating system and programs on your hard
      \n disk, they are written to the disk, for the most part, in one contiguous block
      \n without any gaps. The exceptions are certain system files that must be stored
      \n in specific locations. Over time, as you create and then delete documents or
      \n uninstall programs, once-filled locations are left empty and you end up with
      \n files dotted all over the disk.<\/p>\n

      Now, when Windows is writing a file to the disk, it looks for a suitable
      \n piece of free space in which to store it. What happens, then, when you copy a 40M
      \n database or audio file to the disk and the biggest slice of free space is only
      \n 30M? Or say you modify an existing file, appending a whole bunch of data so
      \n the file now takes up more space on the disk. To accommodate the files,
      \n Windows writes the first part of the file in one section of the disk and then
      \n scouts around for other places to store the rest of the file. The end result
      \n is that a single file may be stored in several chunks scattered about the
      \n disk.<\/p>\n

       <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      It’s time for your friendly reminder. If you haven’t done it lately, you need to defragment your hard drive. This should be done at least monthly. To learn what it’s all about, scroll down for the gory details. To just defrag and move on, the instructions are here if you need them. Defragmenting hard drive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-technology-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/dawgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}