What is defragmenting

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Monday October 4, 2010

Defragmenting is a common process used to keep

computers running efficiently

and is part of

routine computer maintenance

. That being said, you might not know

what defragmentation means

. In this tutorial, we'll tell you

what fragmentation is

and explain

how defragmenting helps computers

work faster.

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- Defragmenting a hard drive removes fragments and puts programs and files back as contiguous.

- You defragment your drive to reverse the fragmentation that normally occurs when using a hard drive.

- Defragmentation software copies disk contents into memory and then rewrites it back to disk so files are contiguous.

- By defragmenting your hard drive, the hard drive will work more efficiently so that data is retrieved faster.

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