What exactly does defragmenting your computer do?

@seen7560 (238)
China
February 9, 2007 8:30pm CST
What exactly does defragmenting your computer do?
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@Keryden (240)
• United States
10 Feb 07
because the operating system (Generally windows) stores data in any random free space it can become spread out. What defragging does is bring all the data into a very organised area so that your computer does less work finding them. This in turn causee your computer to run much faster.