[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

Alright then. I guess that's all the questions I have. Thank you all.

[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

1) Let DF do the work.

2) If the drive is heavily fragmented then, yes, you should see a significant change.  Otherwise it may just be a slight improvement.  Usually people do it too regularly and see no difference.

3) very, very, VERY unlikely.  Like a bad apple in a case, you only hear about the one time something went wrong, not the 99 other times it worked perfectly.

Thank you. You actually pushed me away from the comfort zone and had me defrag my files for the first time in two weeks. Windows already did the work for me, so I just defragged what it didn't, rebooted it to make sure it didn't screw anything up and it worked wonderfully.

 

I wasn't able to defrag this one file, "Memory.DMP", since the defragging gets aborted when I go about it, so I believe there's nothing I can do about that, but other than that, everything else works perfectly, I hope.

 

I'll probably defrag a little less regularly than before, however. Thank you guys a thousand for this. I apologize for starting another question, but I might as well ask it, since it's what caused me to post my three questions:

 

Does svchost.exe get affected by fragmented files? I ask because svchost.exe took a huge chunk of memory when the files were fragmented, but after I defragged, they went back to normal. I might assume not, because my belief is that it only acts up when Windows needs to download updates or when Superfetch needs to be used. Thank you guys a thousand.

[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

Alright, sorry for bumping this, but I figured I give you all a status update.

Turns out my Computer's CPU chip burnt out and had to be replaced, so Defraggler didn't have anything to do with it. That said, I have a lot of fragmented files, most of them partaining to the System32 folder, though all of them aren't even half a gigabyte in size.

My questions are:

• Should I defragment the files or let Windows do the work?
• Will defragmenting actually do anything remarkably signifigant? (Referring to Ache's post)
• Will it disrupt any files and screw it up?

[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

Most likely the hard drive developed bad sectors which corrupted the files that lived on those areas, or the disk controller was failing, or the bearing, or the PC got malware, or who knows what else.

 

7 years is a good run though.

 

A stat I heard about 4 years ago was that the average life span of a mechanical drive was in the area of 2-3 years.

Which is why backups should be an important task - but sadly, seldom are.

That's exactly what I heard too. In about 3 years, new machines become "obsolete" and their selling rate degrades at a rate similar to bananas.

[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

how old was the hard drive?

 

it's next to impossible that DF corrupted your PC, worst thing that could happen is the file that was being moved by DF could have been 'scrambled' if DF somehow terminated mid-use.

 

a more likely scenario is the extra load put on the hard drive by using DF pushed it over the edge and brought forward an event that was on the cards anyway.

Considering that my hard drive is seven years old, yeah, that's my safe bet. I'll get some answer as to what happened, but thank you for answering. You and Ache managed to help alleviate my stress. Perhaps it was so old that the files began to deteriorate. I don't know. 

[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

Alright. Thank you. I needed confirmation.

[Did Defraggler corrupt my computer?]

I'm sorry to start this off with an accusation, but I've just had my computer taken in for repairs because it kept BSODing and even its start up files weren't able to work. The guy doing repairs told me that it was corrupted, but I've been maintaining my computer with Defraggler. I recall there being a huge risk of screwing up my computer, so I want to know if  that's what happened.

 

For specifics, I run Windows Vista, HP Pavilion.