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smith
If I do both things, what could happen? Could the hard disk be damage?
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Can I download files at the same time when I defragment the harddisk?
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Richard Urban
It would be counter productive if you were saving the file to the same
partition you were defragging.
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partition you were defragging.
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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
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Plato
smith said:If I do both things, what could happen? Could the hard disk be damage?
Defrag is best run if nothing else is going on.
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Ron Sommer
Defrag is similar in disk activity to doing a virus scan.
Your download would be extremely slow.
Start the defrag and let it run when you don't need the computer for
anything else.
Your download would be extremely slow.
Start the defrag and let it run when you don't need the computer for
anything else.
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ms
smith said:If I do both things, what could happen? Could the hard disk be damage?
If you are using XP it won't hurt, but ideally you would let defrag work by
itself.
If it is your system disk, you would notice a slowdown, but if it is a non
system disk, you probably won't - though it depends on your system specs.
I am using XP Pro with an Athlon XP2500+ and 1GB RAM and don't notice much
of a slowdown.
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Darrell S
Most likely your defrag will continually stop and start again as you change
the info on the drive you are trying to defrag. You'll probably never get
beyond 1% defrag.
Any program that changes the content of the drive being defragged will cause
defrag to start again from the beginning. It won't damage anything but (as
you were told) it's counterproductive.
That's why it's easier to boot to the Safe mode and defrag from there.
the info on the drive you are trying to defrag. You'll probably never get
beyond 1% defrag.
Any program that changes the content of the drive being defragged will cause
defrag to start again from the beginning. It won't damage anything but (as
you were told) it's counterproductive.
That's why it's easier to boot to the Safe mode and defrag from there.
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Alan
smith said:If I do both things, what could happen? Could the hard disk be damage?
You can. No damage. To get some performance get a second disk and defrag
one, download to the other, depending on your system put it on a separate
IDE channel.
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ms
Darrell S said:Most likely your defrag will continually stop and start again as you
change the info on the drive you are trying to defrag. You'll probably
never get beyond 1% defrag.
Any program that changes the content of the drive being defragged will
cause defrag to start again from the beginning. It won't damage anything
but (as you were told) it's counterproductive.
That's why it's easier to boot to the Safe mode and defrag from there.
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The OP doesn't state if he is using NTFS or FAT32. I haven't tried defraging
a FAT32 partition on XP, so it may not complete, but he would get a message
to this effect.
NTFS has no problem however.
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smith
So I need to close all running programs if I want to defrag the disk?
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kenchi
smith said:So I need to close all running programs if I want to defrag the disk?
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Darrell S
Yes.
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