Dmitry Valiakhmetov is in touch with another portion of fresh and useful information. In this lesson, we will become familiar with the concept of disk defragmentation, which is used to increase the life of the hard drive, as well as to speed up the operation of the system, or the computer as a whole.
After working on a computer for a long time, for example, one year, two years, free space appears in the hard drive in a very undesirable way as a result of performing various operations on files - deleting and moving.
When recording information, files may be written not in one place, but in different sectors. Let's say we decide not to clear necessary files from our computer and write new data to the hard drive. It should be noted that when files are written, they can be written to disk not in one place, but in parts, that is, half of our document will be written in one area, half in another. In fact, our file will be stored entirely on the hard drive, only in different sectors.
Thus, the file will be fragmented, that is, what does fragmented mean? This means that our file will be split into certain fragments. This, of course, will not have a favorable effect on the hard drive itself; when reading data from the disk, the hard drive head will periodically move between these areas, thus collecting the entire file in parts.
In turn, this will affect the speed of the computer, our system will begin to work slowly, and the resource hard drive will decrease very quickly, and, in the end, you will have to replace it with a new one. To help the hard drive unite areas where various pieces of data are stored, it is necessary to periodically defragment the hard drive. In Windows 7, disk defragmentation is performed automatically.
Although, if you wish, you can set your own schedule for the computer to defragment the disk. So, it's time to move on to the practical part and consider the main points when defragmenting.
To start defragmentation, go to: Start > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Defragmenter. Or even easier, just type the word “Defragmentation” in the search bar. As a result, a dialog box will open.
As I said earlier, you can set up a defragmentation schedule yourself; to do this, click on the “Set up schedule” button.
To start the disk defragmentation process, first select the partition you want to defragment and then click Disk Defragmenter.
The “Analyze disk” tab allows you to obtain information about whether defragmentation of the selected partition of the hard drive is required. In general, today on the Internet there are a sufficient number of various utilities to improve the performance of the computer, by checking the hard drive for errors, defragmenting the hard drive, and cleaning the system registry etc. I will give some of them: CCleaner, Paragon Total Defrag, auslogics disk defrag and many others.
I want to introduce you to one of these utilities, with the help of which you can do both, and also , this utility is called Auslogics BoostSpeed. To download this utility, go to the official website of the developers auslogics.com.
Thanks to this utility, you can optimize your computer at any time, which in turn will increase system performance and speed up the execution of certain processes on your computer. I would like to immediately note that the utilities are constantly updated with the latest versions, that is, supplemented with various additional functions. At the time of writing this tutorial, I have one of these versions installed. Therefore, the version you download may differ from the one I presented. Let's take a quick look at the interface of the Auslogics BoostSpeed utility.
As you can see from the figure, everything is quite simple, the left side of the window shows the main functions that can be performed on the computer, this can be cleaning the registry, defragmenting, checking.
I think you won’t have any problems with this utility, since no special knowledge is required when working with this application. It's simple, open the application, select hard section disk and ran it for testing or set defragmentation.
On this this lesson how to defragment a hard drive I conclude, I hope the information for you was useful and interesting. See you in the next lesson, friends!
Finally, to consolidate the material you have covered, I suggest you look in practice at how it works. hard drive!
Hi all! I think many people have noticed that over time the computer begins to work slower... it seems that they installed a program, deleted it - but in the end there is no program, but the brakes remain. One of the reasons is disk fragmentation. If you have SSD drive, then you don’t have to read this note - defragmentation is not needed there, but on the contrary - it can even harm your computer.
When you install a program on your computer, copy a new movie, or download music from the Internet, pieces of this data are not written sequentially, but on empty areas of the hard drive, and sometimes very far from each other. This situation is called data fragmentation... and if there are a lot of such sections, then the computer begins to work much slower. Therefore, if you have never done defragmentation, then periodically performing it can increase the performance of your computer.
In our situation, you need to organize all the data so that it is as conveniently located for reading as possible (that’s why when you divide a disk, the time it takes to complete this operation varies so much), after everything is in order, not only the speed of reading from disks will increase, but also in general and the operation of the system.
The defragmentation process can take varying amounts of time - it all depends on your computer and the degree of fragmentation of your data, usually from a few minutes to many hours... in general, each case is individual.
The Windows system has standard services for defragmentation, we don’t have to install anything (however, the network is full of programs specifically designed for disk defragmentation)... to do this, right-click on the local disk and select “Properties” there.
In properties local disk select the “Service” tab and find the “Perform defragmentation” item there - this is what we need.
Here it is advisable for us to first analyze, and then decide whether to defragment or not? If fragmentation is present, then we do it, but perhaps you don’t have any problems - why load your computer with extra work?
Right there (directly without leaving the cash register), you can set a schedule... for example, I don’t turn off the computer at night and defragmentation is performed while I’m sleeping... so it doesn’t bother me at all, which is why I can’t say how long this process takes me, since I don’t take part in it .
Hello dear readers, there is a very useful thing, which serves to speed up and comfortable work in windows environment besides, there is another interesting operation called system defragmentation. In this article I will tell you what it is and show how Right carry out this operation without wasting extra time!
What is defragmentation and how does it improve computer performance?
Any hard drive has and every file system consists of having different size depending on the type of file system. To be placed on a hard disk, not one, but several clusters are required. When a file is written to disk, the file system produces free clusters, but they are not always issued sequentially. Because of this, videos, music, games begin to slow down, because... the file system starts searching for files everywhere hard drive, and consequently the disk resource is reduced.
That's why defragmentation The disk is used to organize the contents of clusters, which speeds up the work of programs.
For a clear example, I will give the following example. Each of us listens to music and when a song is played, the player begins to search for the desired song, and if the clusters were ordered, the player would find it three times faster! Interested? Then let's see how to do it more correctly!
We will defragment the hard drive using two special free utilities Defraggler And Norton Utilities. And then I will tell you a few secrets for high-quality defragmentation.
How to defragment a computer
Free Defraggler program, how to use?
One of the best free programs disk defragmentation is Defraggler. When you launch it, this window opens.
Its interface is very simple, it is completely in Russian, so you should not have any difficulties. It's very easy to use. Select the disk and click analyze to find out whether defragmentation is needed or not. Then the defragmentation button. The utility can also check the disk for errors.
Norton Utilities
I noticed this program a long time ago, probably in 2004. It was much simpler then. The most important thing that pleased me about this program This is defragmentation. When you launch it, you can select the disks you want to defragment.
There is also a program Contig to defragment individual files, but I don’t see the point in this, so I advise you to use the above utilities.
Secrets of proper defragmentation.
1. Defragmentation must be done when moving files extensively, as well as after installing and updating widows. If you are a quiet user and you do almost nothing on the computer, then defragmentation is enough to do once a month.
2. When defragmenting, 15% is required free space on disk otherwise it will be partial.
4. To speed it up, you can remove junk on your computer in advance.
5. Close all possible programs.
When writing any files to the hard drive, all information is distributed across clusters. If you decide to delete a particular file, the clusters with information will be erased, but instead there will be empty space. This disrupts the order of all files on the hard drive. As a result, when reading information, the hard drive spends much more time searching for the necessary clusters, since they are scattered throughout the media. This leads to a noticeable slowdown of the computer as a whole. This process is called fragmentation.
Defragmentation allows you to restore order in the internal space. This procedure organizes the location of all clusters on the media, moving them close to each other. After this, there is a noticeable increase in performance in resource-intensive applications and games. Let's figure out how to defragment a disk and in what cases it is necessary.
When should you defragment your drive?
If you notice that performance personal computer has fallen significantly, then in this case optimization is required. Long loading of programs, opening files, copying also hint that it’s time to optimize.
What programs are used to defragment a hard drive?
Operating systems XP, 7 and later have built-in software for defragmentation. If you want to perform the procedure one-time, you can use it. However, many note poor results during use standard utility. If you decide to use it, then follow these steps:
Let's look at how to defragment a disk using a built-in utility:
Let's look at an example of how to defragment a disk according to a schedule:
- The standard program allows you to set a regular schedule for defragmentation. In the previous window, click the button Set up a schedule....
- In the window that opens, select the frequency, day, time and partitions that need to be defragmented.
- Once the setup is complete, click OK.
Now the turned on computer at the appointed time will carry out automatic start optimization procedures.
During this period of time, there may be a drop in performance as the system is busy with a more important process.
According to the instructions provided, it is carried out defragmentation of hard disk in Windows XP, 7, 8 and 10. Now let's figure out how to defragment a hard drive using a third-party program.
Optimization using defragmenters
Defragmentation programs system disk quite a few. Among them there are both options for advanced users and for beginners. For example, consider a simple utility Defragger, full free version which can be downloaded from the official website of the developers. Download the distribution, install the software and run it. The program cleans disks in OS 7, 8 and 10. To do this, follow the instructions:
By using Defraggler not only defragmentation of the system or external drive. You can also get information about the performance of the media, a list of files, or optimize each folder separately.
How to defragment a disk using Auslogics Disk Defrag
Another utility that allows you to quickly or completely defragment your hard drive. The main window of the program is very similar to Defraggler, so there should be no problems using it.
Let's look at the startup process:
Now you know how to defragment a hard drive, including an SSD, using standard means Windows or through third party software.
Video on the topic
In this article we will try to answer the questions: what is hard drive defragmentation, why it is needed, and how to defragment the disk. At its core, defragmenting a computer's hard drive is a grouping of file fragments scattered throughout the drive in order to optimize the hard drive's access time when reading large files. In order to defragment a hard drive, special algorithms have been developed that are used to determine the location of file fragments and unused disk space.
Previously with installed system Windows 95/98/ME during disk defragmentation, it was impossible to use the computer, because due to the launch of various programs, the state of the disk changed, and the disk optimization algorithm had to be started again. Under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista: file-based NTFS system, which in turn allows you to defragment the hard drive even while programs are running, and this will not affect the result of the utility. However, files involved in the operation of programs will not be defragmented.
When you turn on the computer, many operating processes Windows systems run in background. And for effective defragmentation, it is highly recommended to run Windows in safe mode and then run to defragment special utility included with Windows or use a special program for this.
Defragment your hard drive using the built-in utility
To run the defragmentation utility, follow these steps:
Double-click the “My Computer” icon, right-click on the icon of the drive you want to defragment and select “Properties”:
(For Windows XP and other versions of this operating system the procedure is almost the same)
Defragmenting a hard drive via the command line
Let's look at the example of Windows XP. Defragmentation is performed using the defrag.exe program. First we launch the program command line(file C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe). To get information about defrag.exe in the window that opens, type: defrag –?
To defragment, for example, drive C, type the following command: defrag C: –f
Scheduled defragmentation
Since defragmentation needs to be done regularly, you can set the defragmentation program to run on a schedule. In order to implement this, let's create a shortcut and write our command in it. On the desktop, click right button mouse and select “Create shortcut”. In the window that appears, enter the command (defrag C: –f) and click “Next”:
Give a name to our shortcut (Defragmentation of drive C) and click “Finish”
The next step is to create a schedule for launching the shortcut. To do this, follow the path: “Start” – “Control Panel” – “Task Assignment”:
