Online Library Internet News Internet Investing Internet Technology Windows Internet Tech. This week, we ll take a look at a nice little utility that can help everyone running Windows 2000. Hard Disks get fragmented. There s no way around the problem. FAT32 or NTFS, you ll be victimized by the fragging demon.
Fragmentation is the natural outgrowth of adding and deleting files on the hard disk.
When your disk is fresh and new, all the chunks of your files get placed next to each other. But over time the files change, and there isn t space on the disk adjacent to the original files. The file system driver has to put those new pieces somewhere, and that somewhere may be very far from the start location of the file. Overlooking the Obvious It amuses me when users and admin s who have never defragged their disks talk about upgrading RAM, Processor and video components in their machines to improve the performance of their system. If you want to optimize performance, you should start by addressing this bottleneck .