Volume fragmentation

[Guest SANTANDER]

Two hard drives, 80GB and 160GB. 1st HDD contains operating system, program

files, many files, and intensively used for 4 years, 2nd HDD(160G) is new,

used just few months and contains jonly files. When analyze for volumes

fragmentation, it is shown that I do not need to defragment C: volume: Free

space: 45%, total fragmentation - 3%, File fragmentation - 6%. But when

analyze 2nd volume(160GB), it show that I should defragment this volume:

Total Fragmentation - 20%, File Fragmentation - 41%,though Free space - 97%.

Why the 2nd volume so deeply fragmented, whereas it have Free space 97%?

Should I ingnore analyze and there is no needs to defragment 2nd volume?

 

Thanks.

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Volume fragmentation

 

Because there are not very many files on the drive, having only a few

fragmented files makes a very large percentage. Defrag it if you feel

like it or just ignore it, because as you add more contiguous files the

percentage will drop all by itself.

 

SANTANDER wrote:

> Two hard drives, 80GB and 160GB. 1st HDD contains operating system,

> program files, many files, and intensively used for 4 years, 2nd

> HDD(160G) is new, used just few months and contains jonly files. When

> analyze for volumes fragmentation, it is shown that I do not need to

> defragment C: volume: Free space: 45%, total fragmentation - 3%, File

> fragmentation - 6%. But when analyze 2nd volume(160GB), it show that I

> should defragment this volume: Total Fragmentation - 20%, File

> Fragmentation - 41%,though Free space - 97%.

> Why the 2nd volume so deeply fragmented, whereas it have Free space 97%?

> Should I ingnore analyze and there is no needs to defragment 2nd volume?

>

> Thanks.