| QUOTE (J.D. @ Mar 16 2005, 06:56 PM) | | my freind says to de-frag your PC... what is that and how do you do it?/? btw, thanks for the prev posts. |
A hard drive is just liek a CD-ROM... or a record player. There is a disk that stores data and a laser that reads the data (except a HDD is usually thincker and bigger, and more complicated).
So when you use your computer for a long time, things get scrambled up, when you open a program the laser may need to move all the way to the other side to get data... kinda like this:
| CODE | | 0---00-0------0------0------0---0-0-----0 |
The 0=data. When you defrag a PC, the data is re-arranged and sorted to look liek this:
| CODE | | 0000000000------------------------------- |
There is minimal space between files and accessing them is faster.
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