WHAT IS A FRAGMENTED HARD DRIVE?
What is a fragmented hard drive? Fragmentation makes your hard disk do extra work that can slow down your computer. To keep your computer running its best, you should defragment, or consolidate files, on your hard . Defragmenting your hard drive improves your computer’s performance and is something you should be doing regularly. Disk defragmenting may take a while. If you have energy-saving features active (such as a screen saver), they could cause the defragmenter to stop and start all over again. Try running your defrag overnight. You can also set up the procedure to run automatically at a preset period of time, such as once every two weeks, by using the Configure Schedule button in the Disk Defragmenter window.