D drive

[Dave]

I have windows XP home edition. I read here about
cleaning and defraging all the drives. Can anyone tell me
if the D drive needs to be cleaned and defraged? I
thought I only use my C on XP
Thanks

[Sir_George]

Dave,

If the "D" drive shows in the available defrag list of drives, defragging
would be appropriate.

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"Dave" > wrote in message
...
> I have windows XP home edition. I read here about
> cleaning and defraging all the drives. Can anyone tell me
> if the D drive needs to be cleaned and defraged? I
> thought I only use my C on XP
> Thanks

[Ken Blake]

In , Dave wrote:

> I have windows XP home edition. I read here about
> cleaning and defraging all the drives. Can anyone tell me
> if the D drive needs to be cleaned and defraged? I
> thought I only use my C on XP


First of all, tell us what drive letters you have and what
devices you have on them. Is D a second hard drive, a second
partition on your only hard drive, a CD drive, or what?

Second, assuming that it's a second hard drive or partition, tell
us what you use the D drive for.

Third, note that what drives you use and what you use them for
has nothing to do with what operating system you run. What you
use D for is almost certainly the same on Windows XP as it would
be if you were running, for example, Windows 98.

I don't know what you mean by "cleaned," but if D is a hard drive
or partition with contents that change, then yes, it gets
fragmented and should be defragged periodically. Depending on how
you use it, you may find that it needs to be defragged less
often, or more often, than C.

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Ken Blake
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[Jim Macklin]

Cleaning means that you delete temporary files and such.
Easy way to do so is by opening MY COMPUTER and right
clicking on the hard drive (s) and selecting "properties"
and then click the "clean up" button on the window. Then
you click on the tools tab to access the defrag utility.
If you have never defragged it can take all night if you
have a big drive. If you defrag often it goes pretty fast
because there is less to do. You need at least 15% free
space to defrag because fragmented files must be moved to
make a place to put other files, like shuffling a deck and
putting it in order.

Some times defrag will fail, to get it to run well, some
people have to boot to safe mode.


"Sir_George" > wrote in message
...
| Dave,
|
| If the "D" drive shows in the available defrag list of
drives, defragging
| would be appropriate.
|
| --
| Sir_George
| For better access to newsgroups;
|
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
|
|
| "Dave" > wrote in message
| ...
| > I have windows XP home edition. I read here about
| > cleaning and defraging all the drives. Can anyone tell
me
| > if the D drive needs to be cleaned and defraged? I
| > thought I only use my C on XP
| > Thanks
|
|