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Safe while defragging Hard Disk? Thread starter Human Being Start date Jul 21, Forums Hardware Storage. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
Previous Next Sort by votes. Human Being Reputable. Jun 28, 0 4, Is its safe to operate computer while disk is being in defragmentation process while defragging because right now I'm defragging my HDD by third-party utility "Defraggler" and Paused the process because I want to know here in the forums. Nov 7, 64, 2, , 6, Depend on what you are doing when it defragging. Just don't do anything that required heavy HDD access, surfing the web is fine, making video is not, etc.
For HDD, defrag does help, instead of having a file fragmented, it make the read faster seq instead of random. Jul 6, 1 11, I've never known it to be an issue. Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.
Students Click Here. Hi I have a question that may sound stupid, but I'd like to know - can I run some programs while I'm defragmenting my system? Or will it harm my computer? You can run programs, the defrag process should not normally break. However, you must be aware that the defrag will reset and start over every time something is written in the partition you are defragging. I do not know if that has an impact, but you certainly run the risk of defragging for a long time - or never if HDD write access is often more than once a minute for that partition.
In the end, it is not because using apps is a risk to the data or the HDD, but much more because the defrag process will never be able to do anything. As much as it might be unpleasant, I do suggest stopping all applications that have even a remote chance of writing something on the partition you want to defrag. If your applications are too critical to do that, I would then heartily suggest buying a second PC and setting up a cluster.
That will give you the possibility of taking one machine offline to do maintenance, while the other takes up the critical functions. A cluster is two or more servers working as a single unit.
That is, any client connecting to the cluster connects to one of the servers in the cluster, but does not know and cannot choose which one. I suggest a disk cleanup before starting a defrag, and also consider if it is really necessary. Run a Quick Defrag. Run CCleaner before using Defraggler. This cleans out unnecessary files from your system, allowing Defraggler to run faster.
Defragmenting is important to keep your hard drive healthy and your computer up to speed. Learn how to manually defrag your Windows computer. Most computers have in-built systems to defragment your hard drive on a regular basis.
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