Defragment incident

[TigersGhost]

So I decided to defragment my C drive.

Now when i start my computer, nothing works. I can move my mouse and thats all. Taskbar is a constant loading icon. And desktop icons don't react to anything. 

I can't do anything anything at all...

[TEDWARDS]

 Please for the love of god tell me it was not an SSD?

[DirkaFat]

I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but did you defrag an ssd?

[TigersGhost]

 Please for the love of god tell me it was not an SSD?

Ouchem.... It was... what does that mean?

[Rheinwasser]

i cant imagine this being the defragmentation process. if it would have destroyed windows files, you have to reinstall anyways.

[Rheinwasser]

Ouchem.... It was... what does that mean?

you shouldnt defrag ssd, reduces their lifetime.

[Kamina]

Ouchem.... It was... what does that mean?

You killed its lifespan by tenfold. 

[TigersGhost]

Oh ******* ****. I did not know that  :unsure:

So... can I do anything?

[flibberdipper]

 

Oh ******* ****. I did not know that  :unsure:

So... can I do anything?

 

Not really. Maybe an OS reinstall will work.

[TigersGhost]

Not really. Maybe an OS reinstall will work.

Well I guess I can do that, no problem, as long as it will work 

[DirkaFat]

Well I guess I can do that, no problem, as long as it will work 

Our prayers go with you and your SSD

[TigersGhost]

Alright. Too late for that now. I'll see what happens tomorrow...

[brownninja97]

A moment of silence for the pain inflicted upon this ssd

[TigersGhost]

Our prayers go with you and your SSD

 

A moment of silence for the pain inflicted upon this ssd

:unsure:

[Joshyy]

Let's also not forget, the controller of the SSD who now has to painstakingly undefragment the data. 

[Xsilent(X)]

Ouchem.... It was... what does that mean?

 

you moved files to another location so your files are broken

 

You killed its lifespan by tenfold. 

 

Nah thats not true he only fucked up his file system he needs to do a clean install to make it the same again.

[ziogref]

Just for future reference there is no point defragging an ssd. In the days (well we are still here so yeah) of HDD's it would physically move the data on one point of the disks inside to a new point to reduce loading times, so the header doesnt have to go to 5 different locations for the data, its all together, when i say physically move it, i mean on the magnetic platers, it does not effect your folder structure. however this irrelevant on ssd's as it does not matter physically where there data is, as there is no moving parts, so there is no waiting time for the "head" to get to the next chunk of data.

[mansoor_]

if you want to fix this, figure out the algorithm that the defrag tools uses for optimizing data storage, reverse engineer and then rerun.

or maybe i have gone to far.....

[TigersGhost]

Oh thanks for all the info guys.

To get some more of you to facepalm, I did it on both my computers at the same time... But at least my main one still works perfectly. 

 

 

 

Nah thats not true he only fucked up his file system he needs to do a clean install to make it the same again.

 

Phew. Good to know. At least I did not have any important files on that drive.

 

 

if you want to fix this, figure out the algorithm that the defrag tools uses for optimizing data storage, reverse engineer and then rerun.

or maybe i have gone to far.....

 

Yeah... that might be a little hard  :lol:

[TigersGhost]

Ok alright. I have reinstalled windows and as far as I see... everything is fine and ok.