How To Defrag Your Windows XP Hard Drive

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Post date December 19, 2012
25 Comments on How To Defrag Your Windows XP Hard Drive

Jeff Brown of Alpha Computer shares a step by step video guide on how to defrag your computer hard drive with Windows XP. Defragging your hard drive can speed up your computer. Check out www.alphacomputer.ca for more stuff. “Used with permission from Microsoft.”

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25 replies on “How To Defrag Your Windows XP Hard Drive”

OMG EVRYTHING IS FREE SPACEEEEEEEEEEEE

i dont have accesories lol

Hay my local disk C is full and hasn’t walking to defrag

11% free space :( had to delete some stuff 🙁 R.I.P

its been defragging for 24 hrs… help?

Time to do it. Make sure you do a disk cleanup first to remove the temporary files. You don’t want them reorganized. You want them off before defragmenting your hard drive.

Jeff

Hi im normal.

I dont have white or blue. I have almot all red

will the files be harder to find after you defrag the hard drive? does my file scatter all over the hard drive?

Mine looks like a pregnancy test it’s so red!!

This is me defraging my computer for the first time, and THERE IS A LOT OF RED:o

7% free space =( couldnt defrag my pc

win7 ?

gut prog

My computer used to defrag my external hard drive and now it won’t. Any help for me? I noticed today that my external hard drive had the system file on it. How do I remove that from this hard drive? Isn’t one System file on C enough to run my computer?

Wow, this has gotta be like, the quickest most too the point tutorial i’ve found. Good shit. Thanks mate.

Some genius you are.
Defragmenting can increase speed drastically for a few tasks.

If you’ve got a HDD 50% filled, with 75% of the files fragmented, and you want to write a large uncompressed video to the drive, it’ll go very slow compared to a drive with contiguous free space and no small gaps between files. You should rethink your career, I believe you’re misleading your students.

35% free space D:

@jarivanv You should do a defrag all by itself if possible.

@Robert Baker You might look to see what is loading at start up that you don’t need. Programs like to be added to the computer start up routine. Only a few need this. This would a tech geek thing.

Thank You I Have 74 % Free Space before def-raging But My Computer Was Running Very Slow Is This Going To Help Speed it Up Or Should I Do Something More ? Any Suggestions Are Greatly Appreciated !