"rick s" <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Someone told me that the more you run disk defrg the better chance of
> destroying your hard drive. Is this true?

There is a small risk of damaging your file system while
defragging, e.g. when you suffer a power failure right in
the middle. I think defragging once a month is plenty. Any
more often would make no measurable difference but
would increase the risk.