Hard disk recovery how to defrag your computer hard drive?

Why you should defrag your computer hard drive?

Your data are stored on different spinning platters. The data are not in sequential order. Fragments happen when files are split between blocks. As the files are far from each other, it need more time for the hard drive head to read these files. Therefore, the fragments adding extra burden for your hard drive so that to slow down your computer. Defrag your hard disk will rearrange the fragmented data to improve your hard drive’s performance.

Should you defrag your hard drive or not?

If you use a SSD in your computer, you should not defrag it. The SSD id different from the HDD is that it doesn’t use a spinning platter. Therefore, if there are fragments on the drive, it doesn’t take extra time to read these separate files. Defrag does not improve your computer’s performance. On the contrary, the defragments on SSD will shorten the life of the drive.

While if you use a HDD, you need to defrag it.

How to defrag your hard drive?

There are several ways for you to access the Disk Defragmenter

First method:

Click the start menu, and input Disk Defragmenter in the research box.

Open it and select the partition you want to defrag from the Current Status part.

Click the Analyze disk button to check if this drive need defragmenting. It will check the percentage of fragments on your disk.

Click the Defragment disk button. And then you can know the percentage of defragmenting process. It may take you several minutes or several hours depends on the defragments volume.

When the defragmenting process is complete, you can click the Close button.

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How to recover data from hard drive?

If you suffered a data loss on your hard drive partition, you should try to recover them as soon as possible. The sooner you take measures, the more data you will recover. Avoid data overwritten is your assurance to retrieve your data. Although you can recover your data with data recovery software, you still should form a good habit of data recovery.

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