BillW50 wrote:

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> I'll try defragging my Gateway laptop again, but I swear I never see any
> speed improvements. So I don't know what the big deal is all about. On
> old MFM drives, they were so slow, it *did* make a huge difference
> there. But I never seen any improvement on IDE drives yet.
>

Me neither. Defragging is very satisfying for the mind, but its actual
advantages are non perceptible and the risks are non negligible. I have
gradually stop defraging my machines.

The only thing which actually seems to make it beneficial might be in
case of a file crash. It is probably easier to recover one continuous
file than one spread all over the place.
--
John Doue