Traveller Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 How do I get free clusters together and not all over, did defrag, defrag free space, defrag free space (allow fragmentation) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted July 12, 2011 Moderators Share Posted July 12, 2011 Those gaps could be where the MFT is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 What Operating System are you running? Normally, clicking defrag should defragment and then consolidate your system. Are you running low of free space or is one of the fragmented files bigger than the amount of free space? If you have an external hard drive, you could migrate some of your files (e.g. music, photos, films, anything big that isn't essential to your computer) onto it, then defragment again, and then move your transferred files back onto your internal hard drive. Honestly though, I would just leave it. You won't notice any significant performance gain, especially if your hard drive is fairly new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 Those gaps could be where the MFT is. Drive Map color indicates otherwise :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traveller Posted July 13, 2011 Author Share Posted July 13, 2011 What Operating System are you running? Normally, clicking defrag should defragment and then consolidate your system. Are you running low of free space or is one of the fragmented files bigger than the amount of free space? If you have an external hard drive, you could migrate some of your files (e.g. music, photos, films, anything big that isn't essential to your computer) onto it, then defragment again, and then move your transferred files back onto your internal hard drive. Honestly though, I would just leave it. You won't notice any significant performance gain, especially if your hard drive is fairly new. Win 7/64 HP as map indicates I am not running short on 32% freespace, int 500GB WD HD, no files larger than 32% of 500GB ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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