Bill

You can have two different scenarios. A preponderance of greatly
fragmented files that you never access and greatly fragmented files that
you frequently access. In generall you are more likely to see the second
scenario. The numbers game is not a good guide on the need to defragment
as it fails to distinguish between important files and those which do
not matter.


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Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Bill Sharpe wrote:
> Fiddler wrote:
>> That as bad as being told not to turn the pc off because it will
>> break it "rick s" <ricks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4C4390A7-08CB-4E70-9695-FF9880DA1801@microsoft.com...
>>> Someone told me that the more you run disk defrg the better chance
>>> of destroying your hard drive. Is this true?
>>>
>>
>>
> Defrag only when necessary.
> Now define "necessary." <g>
>
> One solution is to use the command line:
> defrag <drive> -a -v (-a for analyze only, -v for verbose)
> which will quickly tell you how defragmented your drive is and the MS
> suggestion as to whether defragging is recommended or not.
>
> Bill