Melody,

each time we move a file, change a text document, play a game, and do a system restore and the like we are shuffleing the deck of cards.

using a defragmentation program reshuffles the deck.

picture your hard drive as a large round pizza.

now slice the pizza into sixteen slices going from side to side these are sectors

now take that pizza and cut starting in the center using a cookie cutter and using a larger cookie cutter each slick and work up 16 slices. each slice is a track.

now thats a lot of pieces right. yes i thought so.

so now as we use our computers the sectors and trackcks get rearranges based on usage,

the purpose of defraging the hard drive is to manipulte all the data in each sector of each track back into its proper space.

any time i do a major change on a computer be it mine or a clients i always defrag the computer. then reboot the computer to set in stone what i just defragged. then i set a new restore point.

that is why defragging your computer on a regular basis i reccomend oncce a week scheduled while you sleep.


roger.