Shadow wrote:


If your drive is not badly fragmented, I'd look for other
culprits for the "slowness".
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You don't run defrag on an injured disk.

You do a backup first.

Then you can do whatever you feel like, without fear.

Defragmenting involves a lot of head movement,
and it involves writes. If the disk is running low
on spares, or if the Reallocated is constantly
growing with the writes you're doing, you are
treading on thin ice.

Paul