Will you consider defragging a 160GB HD?

I usually defrag about once in 2 weeks, but I find that doing a disk cleanup first helps a lot with time, as it already removes whatever junk there is before defragging. To save time, I've partitioned my 200gb disk into 4 sectors. That way it keeps my files organised, and it keeps defrag times down

Yeah, I would if I ever remember to do that as I've been so busy. I would just leave it on & go do some other stuff. Hmmm....when was the last time I ever defrag my drives anyway....hahahaOh ya, when my wife was telling me the laptop was very slow only did I do it. As for the PC, hmmmmm....still thinking, hahaha

i think that is needed for maintenance you computer but they spend a lot of time. I shoul make this almost every years. But i have this hd more that 3 years and i only rebember that i defrag in one time. for this my hd is slow. You should format you pc also every year. I never format my hd.

Hi ferdz! That's tedious. Well, I admit I don't usually defrag my disks. Before, yeah, I really do but it was when I still had a 20GB. It took quite a while before it finished. Right now, I'm not sure if I will. I move lots and lots of files around and I move gigs most of the time but I really tend to move lots of files around. 150GB is my biggest partition though. I can't imagine how long it will take.

I only have an 80gb Hard drive but I allway's run disc defrag about once every 2 month's, or sooner if need be to keep thing's running smoothly. It is surprising how fast your hd get's filled up with every day junk/downloaded item's.

From my experience in computers that I use to work on it and work on its maintenance, before defragment was so good to use with old HDs because of their low capacity, but now we each to 80GB,160GB,200GB, and I dont know what we will reach. I think defragging for this capacity of HD is not practical because windows have do this things while we working on it, but when you have a problem on the HD, I prefer to copy all the important data you need on another HD then format the old one for a good and practical use for it. Have a nice day.

I have not used defragmentation for quite a while because I regularly overwrite the drive with a pre created backup. However, if I did find that I was going to use the same setup for a long time then I would definitely defragment the drive. It is essential to keep the files in order so that the system can run efficiently. I realise that a 160 Gb drive or larger will take a long while to defragment, but the easy way is to run it either overnight or when leaving to go to work.

That size would take hours on end to defrag wouldn't it? I hate doing mine but I do it at least once a month sometimes each week if I've been very active on the puter. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~

I defrag my 200 GB hard drive. I hate having the Red sections in the analyze window. I also have a 300 GB hard drive i have partitioned into 3 100 GB partitions i defrag regularly. It makes a nice difference in how well my system is running. Its also nice because now you can still access the pc while it is defragging where as with windows 95/98 you had to leave the pc alone while it did it for hours on end.

I would set up partitions so that I could defrag as such. I think that would be the best way to keep the HD organized, less likely for information to be lost, and yes much easier to defrag.

Well man thats depends if you use to much like installing or removing program i think the answer is yes