What does it mean to defrag a hard drive?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.