Disc Defragment

[josaphine32]

If you had to stop it, When you restart the fragmentation does it start again from scratch or pick up from where it was stopped,

thanks
Jo

[VHG]

A disk defragment is a process of "tidying up" your hard disk by placing all the files together "neatly" in one place, and moving large files together in the same place when they may be scattered in smaller parts all over the disk.

To that end it is a sort of never ending process which could go on all the time, though after the initial tidying up it will have less value if you keep doing it.

So if you stop it then it will already have done some tidying up, and if you start it again it will continue to do a tidying up.

It wont actually start from where it stopped as it will probably re-analyze the disk to decide what needs doing, but it will tidy up the parts of the disk it did not do before you stopped it.

[josaphine32]

Thank you VHG, I just did not want to stop it as it is still going since 1pm today but now i know it is safe to do I will stop it at 8pm and continue tomorrow. many thanks
JO

[josaphine32]

Ps. 18 year olds laptop not mine, mine broke :-(
this has never been defraged in its life, been going since 1pm,
thank you