disk defragmentation

[kurabrhm]

How often do you use disk defragmentation? And how safe is it to run it for the first time on a brand new PC?

 

[trunks2k]

I defrag my disk once every 3 months or so. But ideally, you should do it once a month. Running the dfragger should have no ill effects on a brand new PC. In fact, I reccomend doing so, especially if the PC comes with a large amount of pre-installed software.

I pretty much built my PC. A few times, I've installed/reinstalled windows. By the time I install all the programs that I want to use, my disk is pretty fragmented. So I defrag it once I'm done setting everything up.

 

[Stryper]

i do it like once every 6 months and when i do do it, i notice a huge improvement in speed.

 

[theartist87]

I defrag every other week. It's not bad for the PC.

 

[Oblivious]

I do mine every 3 months or so. It is very safe for your PC, in fact, it's good for your PC. Fragmented files will slow your PC down

 

[Oblivious]

Just re-read the OP I personally don't see a reason to run a defrag on a new PC. In fact, I bet if you try to run it Windows it will tell you the drive doesn't need to be defragmented.

 

[Heathen Dawn]

How often do you use disk defragmentation?

Once in three months or so.

And how safe is it to run it for the first time on a brand new PC?

Depends where your brand new PC came from, and how it came. If you’ve installed all the software on the hard disk from scratch, after a full format, then you don’t need to defragment. But if the machine arrived with software preinstalled, then it would be good to do it, because you don’t know what the hard disk has been through. Either way, it’s safe.

 

[Tarheel25]

Or get a real computer (Apple) and never, ever have to do things like this.

 

[Heathen Dawn]

Or get a real computer (Apple) and never, ever have to do things like this.

A hard disk on a Mac never suffers fragmentation? Are you sure? Can you explain why?

 

[Tarheel25]

A hard disk on a Mac never suffers fragmentation? Are you sure? Can you explain why?

kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/


Full documentation there. Put a www first. I cannot post full web links yet, not enough posts.

 

[pgp_protector]

kernelthread.com/mac/apme/fragmentation/


Full documentation there. Put a www first. I cannot post full web links yet, not enough posts.

Note that I do not intend to make any claims regarding the fragmentation-resistance of HFS+. I have sampled too few a volume to generalize my "results". This discussion is more illustrative than empirical, wherein I am only suggesting a tool/method that you could use to gauge your own volumes' situation.

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While Apple does not provide a defragmentation tool, they introduced a few HFS+ optimizations in "Panther", two of which play important roles in countering (even undoing) the fragmentation of files that are below a certain size, and are frequently accessed.

So Apples still have frag problems, just not the same type

 

[kurabrhm]

Or get a real computer (Apple) and never, ever have to do things like this.

If an Apple is a real computer I would rather still buy the orange, thanks very much.

 

[kurabrhm]

Just re-read the OP I personally don't see a reason to run a defrag on a new PC. In fact, I bet if you try to run it Windows it will tell you the drive doesn't need to be defragmented.

I have two hard drives. Well, at least it is shown separately. One required some defrag and the other needed nothing doing to it!! But doing defrag definitely improves overall performance in terms of processing speed.

 

[kurabrhm]

Why does my laptop produce a bell sound sometimes? WIERDNESS.....
Is it a virus? Any ideas anybody?

 

[theartist87]

I woudn't think it was a virus, usually they are made more... annoying..... Check your sound settings... Does it happen when you do a certain thing, such as click on an icon, or browse webpages? It could be in your sound settings...

 

[Tarheel25]

If an Apple is a real computer I would rather still buy the orange, thanks very much.

Ignorance is bliss.....

 

[kurabrhm]

I woudn't think it was a virus, usually they are made more... annoying..... Check your sound settings... Does it happen when you do a certain thing, such as click on an icon, or browse webpages? It could be in your sound settings...

What do you mean by sound settings? What about sound settings? What is the specific thing that I should check?

 

[Subtotal]

Why does my laptop produce a bell sound sometimes? WIERDNESS.....
Is it a virus? Any ideas anybody?

Do you use McAfee SecurityCenter? If so, a bell sound goes off every time it installs a new update.

 

[kurabrhm]

Do you use McAfee SecurityCenter? If so, a bell sound goes off every time it installs a new update.

 

[Stryper]

i read somewhere that apples defrag in the background