Defragmentation hard drive on your PC, in this article we will figure out what this process is. Why do many people talk about it as an opportunity to speed up the computer? And also, why run defragmentation at intervals of several months and how will this actually affect the performance of the operating system?
And of course, I will not lose sight of the version of many users who “shout” on every forum that defragmentation for a computer is actually a very harmful process. I will tell you the truth and everything in my head will form a single, correct picture.
Defragmentation is a process that allows you to “arrange the files stored on your hard drive into the most orderly structure, which in turn facilitates faster reading and writing of files”
And here, not even all confident PC users understand what is happening, but what should beginners do? Let's figure out once and for all what this cunning process is that allows you to speed up your computer.
Let's start with the fact that all the files that we write to the computer end up on HDD, where they are stored until we need them again. You need to know and understand that initially all your data is recorded in an orderly manner, one by one in "cells" hard drive, they are also represented as clusters. So what’s wrong with this, files are recorded in order and recorded, they don’t bother anyone.
This process takes a lot of time. It depends, of course, on the number of files on your PC, the density of the mess and the overall power of the computer. This will most likely take several hours.
I hope after so much material and watching the video it became clear to you how and what needs to be done correctly. At least you definitely got the basic knowledge. In principle, this could be the end of the article, but still below I will answer another very important question.
Imagine the situation, you have been living with basic knowledge for several years now, periodically, you speed up your computer by doing defragmentation. And everything seems to be fine, but the day comes when on some forum or from friends you hear categorically: “Defragmentation of a hard drive is harmful.” Panic begins, someone simply argues and says that I always do this and nothing, everything works fine.
What to do in this case, who to believe, this is the decision I will try to convey to you. But in fact, every statement can be true. But within the framework of a specific situation. What's the catch and what are the situations?
Yes, everything is simple really. There are two types hard drives and in one embodiment, doing defragmentation is useful and necessary, but in the second, doing it is not necessary and even harmful. Below I will simply write which disks can be accelerated and which are not necessary. All you have to do is find out which hard type disk is in the current computer configuration and take one of two possible decisions.
So if you have:
If something doesn’t work out or there are new questions, I’m waiting for you in the comments.
06.04.2015
Greetings friends! The topic of this article will be hard drive defragmentation. Mostly beginners do not know about this process, which is what causes the hard drive to fill with fragments.
On each hard drive of each computer user, thousands of files are saved and the same number are deleted. In their place, thousands of files are again installed, and then deleted with the same number.
Let me now try to explain this process in understandable human language.
Let's say you have bookshelves in your room. On each shelf all the books are sorted by name i.e. from A to Z.
The hard drive is in the same state without fragments. But one day, all the books were mixed up, the sorting order was disrupted and, ultimately, a complete house. The hard drive containing fragments is in approximately this state.
The newly purchased computer works with high speed and performance. Over time, the computer begins to slow down over time. In such situations, if you observe that the hard drive begins to crackle and operate noisily, this signals one thing, it is time to perform defragmentation (reverse fragmentation)
Let's look at the first way to use the built-in program. This method has significant disadvantages. The process does not defragment some system files and the process itself takes a very long time.
Let's go start open all programs, then move on standard choose official Select the one that opens from the list Disk Defragmenter
Basically, in all cases, this partition is the system partition (the partition where the Windows operating system is installed).
After selecting, click Analyze disk. Once the analysis is complete, click Disk Defragmentation.
Defragment your hard drive with Auslogics Disk Defrag Free
This is a convenient free program that will help defragment your hard drive, while at the same time increasing the performance of your computer, which improves your performance.
This program has a number of advantages over analogues:
- Optimizes system files windows on your hard drive to increase system speed.
- The developers have provided one feature that allows defragmentation of one folder or one file
- The program has very useful mode idle time that works automatically
- This program optimizes free space on your computer
- Flexibility in setting parameters hard drive defragmentation Convenient and clear interface
This program is being improved every month. In this article we will look at the version of the program
Auslogics Disk Defrag Free 5.4.0.0. The counter for this program has reached 11,000,000 users.
While writing an article this version programs only for English language.
Auslogics Disk Defrag Free 5.4.0.0 can be downloaded from the official website.
When installing, no special knowledge or effort is required; we perform a normal installation. Launch the program
and preferably makes adjustments in the settings to improve the defragmentation result.
Let's go to settings(settings) open program settings(program settings) go algorithm ( algorithms ) . Next, insert a check mark in all items.
When setting these settings, the speed of the defragmentation process improves.
Open the program, select the section, this is basically system partition(C), click right button mouse select Analyze(c).
After analysis, the program will reveal a map of results and tell you whether defragmentation is necessary.
The red cubes on the map are fragments. If the message Advice defragment disks appears at the bottom of the results, this means that the program recommends defragmentation. And if there is no message, we leave everything as is; there is no limit on the number of fragments on the disk.
Basically if the result shows fragments less than 10% then state of hard disk is good.
The process takes from 5-15 minutes, it mainly depends on how many files are on your hard drive.
- If you defragment your hard drive frequently, you will increase the wear and tear on the drive.
- So I advise you to do defragmentation if necessary.
- During the defragmentation process, leave the computer alone. Due to this, defragmentation time is reduced.
- If for some reason you need a computer, you can use the program with the priority set to low.
- To do this, go to settings, hover your mouse over defragment priority and select Low priority.
- For the process to proceed normally, I advise that the disk has free space of 10% of the total memory.
There are times when your computer is always on. In this case, it is better to use a scheduler.
To enable the scheduler, go to settings(settings) click scheduler(Cluster Map).
Mark the section defragment automatic(Defragment automatically) ticked. Next we configure this function according to your conditions.
Example settings:
If you install the scheduler on a laptop it will not work when using battery.
Attention: for the scheduler to work, Auslogics program Disk Defrag Free must be in active mode, i.e. should be running.
In order for the program to start along with windows, go to settings(settings) select program settings(programm settings) and go to the tab are common(general) check the box as in the picture.
That's all the question is: how to do it hard drive defragmentation to uncover. If you have any questions, write comments. I hope the information was useful!
Hello! Disk Defragmenter- many have heard about it, many know what it is, but almost no one performs this necessary operation.
This situation reminds me of smokers - they know that it is harmful and kills, but they do not quit smoking. Same with disk defragmentation. They forget to do it, they don’t attach any importance... Now we will look at why it is needed, how, with what and when to defragment the disk. As always - in detail, step by step and in pictures. As they say - “on the fingers”. I'll use a ruler...
Let's imagine that our hard drive (computer memory) is a ruler. A simple wooden ruler from my school childhood.
Let's “download” a couple of programs and a game onto this “line”...
We use them for a while, but then we realize that we don’t need program “B” and delete it using CCleaner or Unlocker. We end up with this picture...
Without suspecting anything, we install another program, smaller size. And this is where the fun begins. A computer is a smart device. He is trying his best to help the system, speed it up, optimize it. And prescribes new program“C” is as close to the beginning of the “line” as possible. To the nearest free place.
As a result, we get a hole. It won't fit into anything. This is fragmented data. Why and why does he do this? I'm telling...
The fact is that information is read from our “ruler” using a special reading device located on the carriage. So this carriage is carried around with the reading device like a fool with a mortar over a “ruler”. And by the way, at “cosmic” speed.
Imagine a mother with ten children who crap themselves. Or a wolf with a basket from a very popular game of the 80-90s(at the last level)…
Introduced? This is roughly how it happens in the iron insides of our computers. And this device (let’s call it a wolf) needs to monitor and view all programs and files on the “line”, and then there are these useless holes. He also reads them all the time.
And the more we use the computer, install and delete files, the faster the number of these holes grows. As a result, the operation of the system slows down, the “wolf” wears out, the mother of many children is in shock, the children are in ... Oh, I can’t take it anymore! Wait a second!
That's it, he calmed down and crawled out from under the table. So what am I talking about here? Oh yes! About what disk defragmentation is.
And in order to reduce the number of movements of the “wolf” and speed up the search for files, the system places everything as close as possible to the beginning of the disk. Well, defragmenter programs are designed to bring order to all this mess.
Disk defragmentation allows you to organize the location of files on your disk. Remove the holes to the very end of the “ruler”. Thus, stop monitoring and taking them into account.
I hope you now understand the importance and necessity of periodically defragmenting the disk. "Wolf" is smoking, mom is sleeping, the children are bought.
Now let's install the defragmenter program. There are a lot of them on the Internet. Paid and free. I will use a proven, reliable manufacturer of free software. Such as CCleaner, Speccy, Recuva...
Defraggler is a free disk defragmenter program. Simple, reliable and in Russian.
Installer size 6.1 MB. There are no viruses. The program runs on all versions of the Windows operating system.
Installed a defragmenter. If you are asked to reboot, do it.
After it, launch Defraggler and highlight required disk(it is advisable to select everything at once and click “defragment”, then in the settings set to turn off the computer after the operation and go to sleep), click “Analysis” to find out whether you need to defragment the disk today.
You can manage the process and put it in the background and continue to do your business on the computer.
The hard drive is one of the most important components of a computer, but not all users pay due attention to it. If the processor, video card, random access memory and other components, they can be replaced quite simply, whereas if the drive breaks down, the computer owner will lose all his data, which obviously no one wants. To avoid hard drive failure, you need to carefully monitor it and defragment it regularly.
The defragmentation process is very simple and very important, but many people forget about the need for it. It is the organization of files on the hard drive in such a way that the operating system can access them more easily and quickly when requested.
During work hard disk, new information constantly appears on it. The user downloads files from the Internet, installs programs and games, creates new documents and performs a number of other tasks. When information is stored on a hard drive, it occupies a certain number of free clusters on it. At the time of deleting, changing, copying files, the clusters are cleared, but free space is formed between one and another file on the hard drive. Disk defragmentation is necessary to organize the files on the disk so that they follow each other sequentially, and there are no free clusters left between them.
Disk defragmentation on Windows is necessary because:
Some users know about the need to defragment, but do not do it. This is due to the fact that this process is very lengthy, and organizing files on a large storage device can take up to ten hours. At the same time, the procedure time can be significantly reduced; to do this, it is enough to perform it monthly, as recommended by hard drive manufacturers. The more often you defragment, the less data on the drive will have to be moved, and therefore this process will happen faster.
Important: Defragmentation should only be performed on hard drives with a rotating head, whereas on SSD drives it is useless. Defragmentation process solid state drive will only lead to a reduction in the number of rewrite cycles on it, but will not provide a performance increase.
To defragment a disk, you need to run the corresponding process. operating room Windows system contains a special tool that allows you to defragment your hard drive. Unfortunately, it is not perfect, and in most cases it is more convenient to use third party utilities. Various programs contain their own algorithms for defragmenting the drive. Below we will give an example of several such applications and tell you how to perform the work of organizing clusters using the system's tools.
If you are wondering how to defragment a disk in Windows 10 or above earlier versions operating system, this is quite easy to do. To run the standard defragmentation tool you need to:
Please note that you can also configure “Schedule optimization” in this menu item. When selecting the appropriate item, you must specify the frequency of the process and the hard drive/drives that will be subjected to it. After this, the system will automatically defragment the drive according to the selected schedule.
There are dozens of applications that allow you to defragment your hard drive. Each of them has its pros and cons. Some are better suited for large hard drives or drives that are installed on servers, while others are good for home use. Below we suggest considering a couple free programs to defragment the hard drive.
The simplest and convenient application to defragment the hard drive to home computer– this is Defraggler. The free version of the program, which can be downloaded from the official website of the developers, does not have wide functionality, but it copes with its main task.
The application is officially localized into Russian, and it allows you to defragment not only the entire disk, but also separate program or folders. The program also provides an option for quick disk defragmentation.
Auslogics Disk Defrag Free is free version application of the same name from Auslogics. You can also download it from the official website of the developers. The application is slightly more functional than Defraggler, and it does not have a Russian language, which makes it more difficult to work with. At the same time, the program has a number of functions that are not available in the official Windows hard drive optimization tool and in the Defraggler application.
Disk defragmentation is special process, which allows you to optimize and update the logical structure of the hard drive on your computer, which makes it possible to store files in such a way that they enrolled in clusters, the sequence of which has no spaces .
The whole point lies in operating systems, which also includes Windows, files are written to the hard drive quite often not consistently.
Files are written on clusters, i.e. independent units, allowing you to store various information. When the volume of data is too large, it is divided into many groups.
It is also possible that the disk on which you want to save something is full, and unoccupied sectors that follow each other may not exist at all.
If this happens, then the information will be stored in arbitrary sectors, and their location remains to be known. This procedure usually called data fragmentation.
This most often occurs on file systems with the extension FAT (File Allocation Table). This is due to a simple mechanism according to which the degree of fragmentation must regularly increase.
Fragmentation of the media is not critical, but it can cause some inconveniences, including a decrease in the performance of the drive and more serious problem – Reducing your device's performance in all directions.
The hard drive is designed in such a way that in order to read information from a file, it needs to constantly change the position of the magnetic head, i.e. place it above a specific cluster.
This requires time, which can be seen quite clearly when the clusters are located far from each other. From here we draw the logical conclusion that Fragmentation prevents the hard drive from functioning at 100%.
Disk defragmentation is performed using special defragmenter programs, which assemble files into a single whole in parts. But there is another method that is in no way inferior to the one indicated earlier, but you will have to do it manually.
Necessary make your own disk, select the files you need and move it to the created partition. It is worth considering the order of movement: first the large ones, then the smaller ones.
The utilities themselves that allow you to defragment the drive can be paid or free. It happens that they are already available in Computer software. Windows NT 5 and younger, for example, there is already an application for working with file systems with extension NTFS.
To defragment the hard drive using this utility, you need to click on the item “Utilities” in settings, then click on "Disk Defragmenter".
If expanded, then you should follow the following path ( Start, all programs, standard, utility, disk defragmentation). When the program starts, indicate the partition of the media to be processed, click on the icon "Analysis". When it completes, you will see the extent of possible data defragmentation.
Please note that this process takes for a very long time. According to statistics, a few hours is the minimum. Other applications that are active in minimized window mode and third-party processes in the background should at least be interrupted, and It's better to stop.
By doing this, you can protect yourself from partial fragmentation, save a lot of precious time, and be absolutely sure that you won't encounter any errors caused by the inability to defragment due to an active application.
People who have experience in this matter take this circumstance into account and install a computer defragment before bed when it's not loaded various files and processes.
If you defragment using completely or partially free programs, you can pay attention to Power Defragmenter and Defraggler. If you are ready to invest money, then take a closer look at Diskeeper, O&O Defrag Pro.
Many more or less adequate applications that allow you to defragment a disk in full include 2 operating modes: manual and automatic.
If you want to work with your hands, then here you set the required time yourself, specify the settings according to which the disk will be defragmented. If you don't want to do all this, then auto mode will do it for you.
According to statistics, after performing defragmentation you will be able to see a clear picture of all the processes that occurred during the execution of the procedure, as well as the result from which you will know amount of freed disk space, which is guaranteed will increase performance your personal computer.
