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| Problem | The most fragments occur in downloaded files. During the download process, Windows cuts the file in fragments, storing them all around the data storage medium ie on your hard disk. A file being
downloaded is a file being saved in a long term unlike copying or generating a file. That is, the OS is forced to store fragments of the file every little time somewhere on your hard disk. The only way to avoid this would be, if Windows or the download tool would be able to find a free disk block and put the file in there in only 1 fragment after the download. Unfortunately this does not happen, at least not in Windows. That is why the file contains of dozens or hundreds of fragments after a
download process, even a file sized 10 MB.
I recommend to people who store lots of downloaded material on their devices to defragment their hard disk at least every week. Only this way you can maintain a solid and a fast OS and reduce the risk of potential failures on all accounts, especially checksum or crc errors.
A defragmentation actually is not a complicated process. With less knowledge about clusters and blocks, any programmer should be able to write a small program to
defragment. The program has to scan every single file on a device, check their physical fragments by looking up into the directory content on the file system. Then, it has to find a free block on the device to place the file as 1 fragment. However, Windows Vista provides a defragmentation tool, which is both very slow and inscrutable. Besides, it does not provide sufficient options when you want to defragment an encrypted disk like you use it with TrueCrypt or Bestctypt.
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Solution | As luck would have it, there is a program which has been designed to do this process as described above. It does not have a GUI, you just have to start it from CMD by typing "Contig.exe". For those, who like to have a GUI for
Contig.exe, you can use the "PowerDefragmenter.exe". Just copy the file in the same directory where Contig.exe is, execute it from Windows itself. It will guide you through the process and start Contig.exe inside a CMD automatically after you have chosen your options. PowerDefragmenter.exe makes life easier, while Contig.exe is being the read deal. | | Make sure both files are stored in the same folder and start PowerDefragmenter.exe.
| By the way: Contig.exe was originally programmed by Mark Russinovich of a company called Sysinternals. They have done such great work, that Microsoft acquired them in July 2006 and put all their tools inside the Microsoft website itself. >> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals
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Defrag, defragment, Defragmentation, Windows, Vista, Tool, Truecrypt, Bestcrypt, fast, faster, cmd, commander, CRC, checksum, Error. |
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