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Old October 26th 19, 04:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Can I defragment my drive while working ?

Paul in Houston TX wrote:

Fern wrote:

Is there a tool that will allow this?
I have a Windows XP Pro laptop.


Doing it that way would leave the drive fragmented making defrag a
waste of time.


Except the OS is active and accessing and updating files during the
entire defrag operation which, according to your logic, means a defrag
would never be valuable.

Even if you booted a disc or USB drive to run an OS from there to run a
defrag while the target disk's OS remained quiescent, the moment you
reboot into that OS then files are getting accessed and updated to undo
some "perfect" defrag. Defrag is never meant to be perfect nor long
lasting.
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