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Organizing my HDD

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If you want to defragment your HDD you should take a look at Defraggler:

https://www.piriform.com/DEFRAGGLER

You could also consider some of these:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/best-free-defragmentation-software-windows

I don't know of a way to see where the files are on the platter, but defragging should improve the performance of the drive (depending on how fragmented it is).

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I know space sniffer shows you what you have, is there a application for windows 8.1 that can let you reorganize where flies sit on the platter on the hard drive??

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If you want to defragment your HDD you should take a look at Defraggler:

https://www.piriform.com/DEFRAGGLER

You could also consider some of these:

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/best-free-defragmentation-software-windows

I don't know of a way to see where the files are on the platter, but defragging should improve the performance of the drive (depending on how fragmented it is).

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