2 much defraging can mess up HDD?

2 much defraging can mess up HDD?

 

I wouldn't worry about it. Jarring the computer is FAR worse. HDs are built with ridiculous amounts of read/write cycles in mind. Defragging regularly is recommended, and will not mess up your drive.

Also, this has been covered....search the forum for more discussion.

 

Just make sure you park the drive heads before you defrag, or if your laptop is on a tilt, some of the sectors could get misaligned due to magnetic fields.

 

I defraged my laptop today, and I would say it was at about a 5.256 degree angle, would that hurt? Heh

 

Lol. I was just making stuff up. But now Im worried that some people might take what I said seriously. You are probably just humoring me, too, though.

But just to be safe - I was just making stuff up. Defragging wont hurt your drive.

 

Haha, yeah I was just kidding. People are probably going to think I wasn't... maybe I should edit that...

 

That alone said to me you were making stuff up. How could you park the drive head and do a defrag What the data was just going to magically move itself... Come on we are trying to help people here there was no need to post nonsense...

Hambone ttupa answered your question pay no attention to the silliness of the other posters...

 

I didn't think he was making stuff up--I thought he was just a moron.

Glad to be set straight.

 

***Thank You***

 

What defrag program do you guys use or suggest? I use O and O defrag and when i do a check disk scan it always tells me errors were detected, but then i run a windows repair and it says problems were fixed, but when O and O checks the disc for errors again it still says it found disc errors. Is O and O anything to go on?

 

yeah i would like a recommendation as well.

 

All i know is that windows defrag is not the best to use, and I think OO Defrag is the best that I have used so far, but do not take my word.

 

when i use 0&0 that happens to me too. i use Diskeeper now.

 

diskeeper beats o&o

 

Auslogics defragger is really fast.

 

Yup thats what I use.

And it's even faster(if you Multi-boot) when you use it from Vista to defrag your XP partition and Vice Versa. I think cause that way no process are running on the partition it's defragging.

 

Can auslogics defrag master file table (MFT), NTFS metadata, directories, pagefile, the hibernate file, offline defrag...?

 

I personally prefer Perfectdisk it is very efficient. It does a far better job than diskeeper I switched 2 years ago and never looked back .

 

no, it won't.

 

i like diskeeper before.... but when i tried using perfectdisck i never looked back since...

 

the reason i asked this is because when i defrag, my HDD feels really hot.

 

that's because it's being used. i wouldn't worry about it.

 

I am a Diskeeper fan so I'd recommend it as the best defragger. Recently tried out OO, Perfectdisk and a couple of others. None can match the excellent automatic defragment mode or lean resource usage of the Diskeeper pro. I use it both on desktop as well as my notebook, and am very happy with it.

Will transfer license/reinstall it after I dump this N100 brick (rarely with me these days anyways, so my shoulder feels much better ) and get the still-on-the-wishlist XPS M1330 in September.

 

Don't worry about defragging, it's a waste of time. Maybe do it once a year or every 6 months. Every other OS (Linux, Mac) doesn't even have an option to defrag. NTFS is smart enough where you don't need this.

The only exception is for files downloaded from p2p systems (which can be massively fragmented). In those cases, use "contig.exe" from sysinternals. There's also a GUI for it, called Power Defragmenter, which you can get here. Oh, they are both free tools.