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Defragging hard drive

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Nope it does not.

 

edit- if you have an SSD do not defrag it, it reduces life span drastically.

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no defragging is supposed to make the drive run faster and have less fragmented files. but i must warn you DO NOT DEFRAG AN SSD! It would do nothing but excess read and write to your SSD, thus shortening your read and write cycles and the lifespan of it!  

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No, defragging does not erase data. If it's stopped in the middle of a defrag(killing the program through Task Manager), you may end up with data loss, but as a function, it will not cause data loss.

 

If it's an SSD, there's no need to defrag it and will only shorten the drive's lifespan(though doing it once won't do anything noticeable).

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Also safe cleaners like CCleaner will not touch user files and only cleans up cache and clutter files, so you can safely add that to your arsenal of troubleshooting utilities. Auslogics Disk Defrag is one of the best free defragging utilities I've ever used so you can add that one too.

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Also safe cleaners like CCleaner will not touch user files and only cleans up cache and clutter files, so you can safely add that to your arsenal of troubleshooting utilities. Auslogics Disk Defrag is one of the best free defragging utilities I've ever used so you can add that one too.

already ran CCleaner it helped a bit
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