Jay85z Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Hi, i loaded this up because i have just upgraded my computer processor to a core2duo and the past month havent really noticed a increase in overall windows speed and such, upgraded from a single-core p4 to this core2duo E8400 processor. Browsing windows and folders with tons of downloads just seems sluggish, im guessing this is why, i have a few games installed like mass effect 2 and a few Steam games which seem to take the most room, but i really cant see why i only have 40ish GB free on my hard drive (150gb capacity), so im guessing i will clean the drive up abit and notice some change in performance, am i right? I seem to have alot of fragmented files on my hard drive i took a picture here of my defraggler screen, is it bad? and do you think ill notice a change when everything is cleaned up? and how long will this take when i start it on C: drive, a good few hours, or a day or more? take a look, and let me know what your thoughts are I'm new to defragging and a general noob to computers, dont know if my drive is really bad or not i assume so! http://i49.tinypic.com/2j3i87b.jpg <--my drive status pic thanks for the input Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norel Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 If you want my opinion it looks very bad. When people want to improve performance the first things they generally think of are a faster processor or more memory when all that's really needed is a good clearing out of the hard drive. Even if you were successful in defragging you would still have a tremendous amount of data in the slow areas of the drive. If you want to keep all your data what you might really need is a commercial defragger that will allow you to place the data where you want it for optimum performance. Defragging with Defraggler might help a little but it will probably take forever and the results might not be that spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uranus One Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 If you have never defragmented, I recommend that you first do a Chkdsk. Chkdsk corrects disk errors if any. It is always recommended, run a Complete ChkDsk before defragmenting, it takes much longer, but is the best option. After the chkdsk. In Defraggler you have to defragment the free space [Right click on drive -> Advanced -> Defrag Free Space (Allow fragmentation)]. And After, have to do Defrag the drive (not Quick defrag) That has to solve all... Greetings! CCleaner User && Defraggler User Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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