defragment

[ddrazen]

guys can you help me fix this thing, i defrag my drive C the suddenly it disappears, how can i put it back?

TIA.

 

[Gnun1x]

if you defrag the C;/ drive, IT will dissapear.

[ddrazen]

but im doing that a couple of times,

how can i put it back?

[GoodBytes]

- Close the defrag tool.

- Open Command Prompt as Admin

- Type: chkdsk/f and hit enter

- It should tell something along the lines that it need a schedule this step for next startup, as it can't do it now, as disk is used.

That is fine, hit your: y key and enter to say yes.

- Restart your system. Stuff will happen at startup. Once done, C:\ drive should re-appear in optimize drive panel.

[AraiBob]

I stopped doing defrags, when I migrated to SATA drives. The SATA drives are more reliable, and while data will be scattered, it won't matter as much.

 

However, 'it' depends on how you use your 'data'.

 

These days, I have my O S on a SSD, and there is NO defrags for that device.

I have a 'work' drive - a Velociraptor 1TB hard drive, which I do not defrag, as I put data on, and take it off, rather quickly. All downloads go here.

I have 4 'data drives' which get data put onto the drives, and then it is read only, mostly. All SATA drives, and NO defrag, ever. What was downloaded on my work drive, gets copied here. The copy collects the data and puts them on the data drive, mostly together.

 

If you use your drives in a different manner, then do pick a process that actually helps your get the job done. Dedicate an SSD for the O S drive. Save yourself a lot of problems, and stop defragging.

[GoodBytes]

I stopped doing defrags, when I migrated to SATA drives. The SATA drives are more reliable, and while data will be scattered, it won't matter as much.

 

However, 'it' depends on how you use your 'data'.

 

These days, I have my O S on a SSD, and there is NO defrags for that device.

I have a 'work' drive - a Velociraptor 1TB hard drive, which I do not defrag, as I put data on, and take it off, rather quickly. All downloads go here.

I have 4 'data drives' which get data put onto the drives, and then it is read only, mostly. All SATA drives, and NO defrag, ever. What was downloaded on my work drive, gets copied here. The copy collects the data and puts them on the data drive, mostly together.

 

If you use your drives in a different manner, then do pick a process that actually helps your get the job done. Dedicate an SSD for the O S drive. Save yourself a lot of problems, and stop defragging.

I don't think you know what fragmentation is and what defragmentation does.

[AraiBob]

I don't think you know what fragmentation is and what defragmentation does.

 

I have been 'doing' computer stuff since 1970. I do know what defragmentation is, and I did use it a lot, when I had normal PATA drives, as they needed the help. At work, no one EVER did a defrag. I only saw it in home PC's, for good reasons.

 

When SATA drives came out, those reasons were 'mostly' not relevant, anymore.

 

However, my opinion is not your 'boss'. You do as you see fit.

 

If you are managing your data carefully, you can 'mitigate' how much defragging you might require. Since the 'data' that is most active and most likely to change is on my O S drive, and that drive is an SSD, the SSD NEVER requires a defrag, and in fact you will 'age' it long before its time.

 

Like any 'tool', defrag should be used carefully, not from habit.