- Defrag dangers
- Posted by Richard Fangnail on October 27th, 2005
Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
- Posted by Dilligaf on October 27th, 2005
Usally there is no problem running defrag first you should run scandisk.
"Richard Fangnail" wrote:
> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
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> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
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- Posted by bumtracks on October 27th, 2005
fwiw
I've booted while defragging and thought UtOh, yet no ill effects.
I've also had on an older w98 with a perfectly good functioning hard drive
and ran a manufacturer smart hdd program check on it, which killed my hard
drive. Haven't ran any of those hdd tools since and that was my only
ever hdd failure. Pretty smart program from WDC. Hey look, its out of
warrantee, lets kill it and then he's gotta buy another.
"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
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> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
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- Posted by Bob I on October 27th, 2005
Depends on the underlying file system. NTFS will probably come out ok
after a reboot. FAT32, well you did make a back-up copy right?
Richard Fangnail wrote:
> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
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> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
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- Posted by Pramit Roy on October 27th, 2005
No important file is physically moved during defrag. What are moved are the
components of a file. You may stop that at any instant. The next defrag will
re-examine and will start from that part of movement. As you are doing this
with the help of OS it may require some more time when it requires any of
those components during moving. Just that, not any danger.
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Pramit Roy
"Richard Fangnail" wrote:
> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
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> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
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- Posted by Gerry Cornell on October 27th, 2005
Richard
No.
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Hope this helps.
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"Richard Fangnail" <richardfangnail@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
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> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
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- Posted by Robert Moir on October 27th, 2005
Richard Fangnail wrote:
> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
>
> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
NTFS is quite resillilent to this kind of thing and usually won't mind if
the odd crash or powercut happens during a defrag... of course any programs
running at the time might not be so forgiving.
On an older computer, a bigger risk from intensive disk activity, such as
you'd find in a heavy defrag session on a large disk, would be from the disk
suffering from a hardware failiure.
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- Posted by Marc on October 27th, 2005
Richard Fangnail wrote:
> Isn't there a risk involved in running Defrag?
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> What if the computer is old and it crashes during Defrag??
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I have dodgy RAM, and my PC gave me a blue screen during a defrag (OK,
Didnt know that RAM was the wrong type at the time) - well it survived
anyway!
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