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- Now for the bright side...you should be aware first of all that ALL drives
- develop fragmentation as a natural course of their usage. It is simply the
- price you pay for the luxury of not needing a million floppy disks to store
- your data. (By the way, floppy disks get fragmented the exact same way, it's
- just that with only 360K to move around in, there is not really the concern
- there is when talking about heads moving around tens of millions of bytes as
- in a hard drive).
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- Also, there are a myriad of programs (commercial, shareware and freeware)
- that will easily allow you to view your hard disk "map", (give you a visual
- representation of the fragmentation status of your drive) and to cure disk
- fragmentation by performing a defragmentation. A defragmentation is a process
- whereby all fragmented sectors of all files are lifted from their current
- position and re-written onto contiguous sectors.
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- Thus, after running a defragmentation program, you should expect your disk
- map to look like the following...
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