![]() Typically, with more room, a defrag will be much happier.Īnd in all honesty, doing nothing is also an option. Space and making decisions to move, archive or delete data to make TryĮmptying your browser cache, or even looking into what’s taking up To state the obvious: free up some disk space and try again. They cannot be part of the solution since they can’t be defragged. That if over time as these have grown they become fragmented, they willĬontribute to what the defragger sees as the “need” for defragging, but In particular, your Windows paging or swap file cannot be defraggedīy the Windows defragger, nor can the system registry files. The second reason is really very much like the first, with the addedĬomplexity of files that cannot be defragged by normal defragging The defragging tool made its best effort to do so. It’ll look like your hard disk still needs defragging, even after That are large enough to hold the file in question.)Īnd if you have a lot of files that can’t be defragged? That is contiguous free space that has unfragmented portions It? (And remember, it’s not just about free space, it’s about free space There’s not enough contiguous free space on the disk to make a copy of So, what if you have a file on your hard disk that is fragmented but Into areas of the disk that are big enough to hold the entire file “Defragging typically works simply by movingīut ultimately defragging boils down to copying fragmented files Location of files on the disk and not just make the files contiguous,īut move them all so that they’re near each other, which means that theĭisk doesn’t need to work as hard when it moves from one file to the The defragger may also take into account the physical That it can create bigger contiguous unused spaces for the biggerįragmented files. For example, theĭefragger can also make choices on which files to move around first, so Now, naturally, that’s an over simplification. Repeat that over and over again for all the files on your Space on the disk that’s big enough to hold the entire file, and moves Places on the hard disk, the defragger just looks for a large unused In a nutshell, if a file is physically spread out in 15 different The first reason is simply lack of disk space.ĭefragging typically works simply by moving files around on yourĭisk. That “this volume should be defragmented”, even though that’s exactly Immediately thereafter run the analysis again only to have it tell you I’m assuming what you mean is that you’ve defragged, and then ![]()
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