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What is Defrag: How to Defragment a Hard Drive in Windows 10

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What is Defrag: How to Defragment a Hard Drive in Windows 10

Avatar for Aishwarya Gunde Aishwarya Gunde
Last updated on: July 5, 2019

Let’s begin with the interesting concept of data storage on the hard disk. The details will gradually let you understand what exactly means defragmenting the hard drive, its significance and how to defragment a hard drive! By installing applications or saving files, we ask the computer to store the data. While doing so, the system writes the data on your internal hard disk.

Defragment a Hard Drive

The data is contiguously stored when the hard drive is empty and spatially new. As you go on using it, fragments get created when you delete any data. The next data storage demands the system to store it in the fragmented blocks since no contiguous space is available. Later, when you access the files, your PC may take time to read it back from the fragmented drive, thus, reducing the start-up speed.

In order to improve the performance and tackle this drawback, defragmentation of hard drive is of great significance. It proceeds in a way that the defragmenter displaces the data between different locations so that it is stored in best possible contiguous space. Thus, the fragmented data is reorganized by this application on your hard drive’s partitions.

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Steps on How to Defragment a Hard Drive in Windows 10

  1. Right-click on the drive you wish to Optimize
  2. Click on ‘Properties’ option
  3. Click on ‘Tools’ tab
  4. Select ‘Optimize’ optionOptimize Hard Drive
  5. There is another option namely ‘Analyze’. Analysis is done and shown in terms of the percentage of the fragmented files in the drive. After the completion of analysis, you can now click on ‘Optimize’.
  6. It is advised that you leave the system isolated from any kind of work or execution, so that the defragmentation process is efficiently carried out.
  7. You can schedule optimization by clicking on ‘Change settings’ and change the frequency with which the defragmentation should be carried out.

SEE ALSO: What to do After Installing Windows 10 »

Conclusion

Therefore, in this way, it lets the files and applications to run more efficiently and quickly and basically, minimizing the task of operating system of accessing and reading the data from multiple locations on hard drive. Note that, there is technical prevention measure to avoid fragmentation. Hence, for Windows users, it is highly recommended to defragment the disk time to time. Moreover, the defragmentation process may not cause a remarkable speed-up, yet you must adopt this technique for something is better than nothing!

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Aishwarya Gunde

Aishwarya Gunde is passionate about her area of interest, she is presently pursuing the Master of Business and Science Degree in Data Analytics. She has a deep curiosity in exploring the Digital and Social Marketing and everything else going around in the virtual world.

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  1. Avatar for SameerSameer

    Hi Aishwarya,
    Thank you for step by guide. Actually I was really looking for defragment a hard drive in windows 10. Really helpful post.Once again, thanks for sharing.

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  2. Avatar for Deepanker VermaDeepanker Verma

    Informative guide. Defragment feature has been in Windows for many years. But people do not really use it. This awesome articles makes it clear and easy to understand.

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  3. Avatar for KrishnaKrishna

    Hi Aishwarya Gunde, very useful information article. Thanks for the information and keep writing keep writing such amazing articles.

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  4. Avatar for Pramod KumarPramod Kumar

    Nice one, it is necessary to do a drive defragment once in a month and you will never face any slower PC performance in the future.

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  5. Avatar for AbhishekAbhishek

    I was looking for how to defragment my PC and here I got this blog for google. Nice and lucid article keep it up buddy.

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  6. Avatar for Abhishek VigyanAbhishek Vigyan

    These days very few people know what is defragmentation means and this article clear this very well. Very nice article.

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  7. Avatar for ShanuShanu

    Awesome article on defragmentation. Most people don’t know what does it really mean but I’m sure they will definitely understand after reading this great article.

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  8. Avatar for MonaMona

    I am using Windows 7 and sometimes my CPU makes click sounds and then Windows freezes for sometime. I have to restart it. Can you help me to figure out what is the actual problem i am having.

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  9. Avatar for Ravi SinghRavi Singh

    Nice one, it is necessary to do a drive defragment once in a month and you will never face any slower PC performance in the future.

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