- Can I download files at the same time when I defragment the harddisk?
- Posted by smith on February 15th, 2006
If I do both things, what could happen? Could the hard disk be damage?
- Posted by Richard Urban on February 15th, 2006
It would be counter productive if you were saving the file to the same
partition you were defragging.
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- Posted by Plato on February 15th, 2006
smith wrote:
Defrag is best run if nothing else is going on.
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- Posted by Ron Sommer on February 15th, 2006
Defrag is similar in disk activity to doing a virus scan.
Your download would be extremely slow.
Start the defrag and let it run when you don't need the computer for
anything else.
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- Posted by ms on February 15th, 2006
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If you are using XP it won't hurt, but ideally you would let defrag work by
itself.
If it is your system disk, you would notice a slowdown, but if it is a non
system disk, you probably won't - though it depends on your system specs.
I am using XP Pro with an Athlon XP2500+ and 1GB RAM and don't notice much
of a slowdown.
- Posted by Darrell S on February 15th, 2006
Most likely your defrag will continually stop and start again as you change
the info on the drive you are trying to defrag. You'll probably never get
beyond 1% defrag.
Any program that changes the content of the drive being defragged will cause
defrag to start again from the beginning. It won't damage anything but (as
you were told) it's counterproductive.
That's why it's easier to boot to the Safe mode and defrag from there.
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- Posted by Alan on February 15th, 2006
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You can. No damage. To get some performance get a second disk and defrag
one, download to the other, depending on your system put it on a separate
IDE channel.
- Posted by ms on February 16th, 2006
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The OP doesn't state if he is using NTFS or FAT32. I haven't tried defraging
a FAT32 partition on XP, so it may not complete, but he would get a message
to this effect.
NTFS has no problem however.
- Posted by smith on February 16th, 2006
So I need to close all running programs if I want to defrag the disk?
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- Posted by kenchi on February 16th, 2006
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- Posted by Darrell S on February 16th, 2006
Yes.
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