On 17 May, 19:40, rick s <ri...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Someone told me that the more you run disk defrg the better chance of
> destroying your hard drive. Is this true?

The more fragmented a drive is, the more new or changed files will be
written fragmented, so fragmentation breeds fragmentation.

Defragging all of the seldom-accessed files only has to be done once,
then they are not going to cause further fragmentation and are not
going to inflate the % files fragmented in the report, and do not
themselves require defragging again.

Let the defrag utility decide when to defrag -- when fragmentation is
low it won't defrag and so will cause no wear on the drive, when it is
needed it will do it's stuff but only on the fragmented files, and
thus reduce unnecessary wear on the drive.

Neglected fragmentation is probably the main cause of computers
getting slower and slower until intolerable.