Hello all, and thank you for visiting this forum. I recently built a new gaming computer, one of the components being a Seagate Barracuda 500GB hard drive. After installing all my games, getting drivers etc., I had used about 100 gigs of hard drive space. I figured it was time to check how fragmented my hard drive was... I analyzed my hard drive and, found it was 42% fragmented. 42!!! I defragmented immediately. After about an hour of defragmentation, the defrag was finished. The next day i curiously analyzed my hard drive again. This time, it was 10% fragmented. And today i analyzed yet again and it was 11% fragmeneted. I have never seen that much fragmentation so fast. I know something isn't right, so i am posting this forum. I use Piriform Defraggler defragging software. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Do you move a lot of large files around all the time? That will 'frag you up quickly.-Feath-
Well, he said he recently built the computer and installed 100GB worth of stuff over probably 2 or 3 days. 42% fragmentation does not seem unusual to me given that circumstance.
I suspected when you installed Windows, you created some partitions. Perhaps you are viewing the fragmentation info of a partition that should have been made larger. I don't see how a 500gb drive could become fragmented so quickly with 100gb of data.
Maybe it's because Windows tends to constantly change the page file size. What I did is first have two hard drives installed, C: and D: drives. I have the page file located at D: only and set to permanent at 12gb.
I haven't defragged C: drive since I assembled the PC last November and it's currently 7% fragmented. I defragged D: drive a week ago and it's currently at 1% fragmentation.
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