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Question by  ganesh (84)

What does it mean to defrag a hard drive?

 
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Answer by  traumatised (3285)

Defragmentation is a process of physically reorganising or compacting files on your hard drive so that they are closer together, opening up more free disk space.

 
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Answer by  lynn (821)

sometimes files become fragmented causing things not to work properly when you defrag the fragments get put back together so things can function better.

 
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Answer by  Mido (29)

To defrag means to take saved data and group them together instead of how the computer normally saves them in fragments on the hard disk.

 
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Answer by  azcuminer (74)

Defragging of a hard drive means to defragment the sectors of the drive or in other words to reorder the allocation of the sectors to be more efficient.

 
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Answer by  dr84bhl (2789)

When you defragment you are creating space on your hard drive. The computer does this and makes your computer run faster.

 
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