The Green Stuff Moved

[Guest Marc]

While surfing, my electricity went off for about a second. The computer

worked okay after rebooting. Then I decided to cleanup the disk and run a

defrag on my C. The big glob of unmovable files, which used to be at the

left end of the defrag screen, now appeared in three pieces at the extreme

right side, and there was a big blank space on the left where the unmovable

files used to be.

 

Defrag moved files into that clear space. Now I'm concerned that the heads

have to sweep the entire disk to read the unmovable files. Won't that cause

excessive thrashing and wear of the HDD? Before, the unmovable files

invariable occupied the extreme left end and were always in one piece, I

liked the looks of that.

[Guest Daddy]

Re: The Green Stuff Moved

 

"Won't that cause excessive thrashing and wear of the HDD?"

No, it won't.

 

I would like to suggest a UPS for you. A UPS (uninterrupted power supply) will continue to power your computer for a short time when the electricity goes out. It will only keep you going for a few minutes, but that should be sufficient time for you to shutdown your computer normally. They're not expensive and as a bonus they include a surge suppressor.

 

Daddy

 

"Marc" <not4sale@thistime.net> wrote in message news:3lrok.17950$1N1.2827@newsfe07.iad...

> While surfing, my electricity went off for about a second. The computer

> worked okay after rebooting. Then I decided to cleanup the disk and run a

> defrag on my C. The big glob of unmovable files, which used to be at the

> left end of the defrag screen, now appeared in three pieces at the extreme

> right side, and there was a big blank space on the left where the unmovable

> files used to be.

>

> Defrag moved files into that clear space. Now I'm concerned that the heads

> have to sweep the entire disk to read the unmovable files. Won't that cause

> excessive thrashing and wear of the HDD? Before, the unmovable files

> invariable occupied the extreme left end and were always in one piece, I

> liked the looks of that.

>

>

>

[Guest Onsokumaru]

Re: The Green Stuff Moved

 

 

"Marc" <not4sale@thistime.net> wrote in message

news:3lrok.17950$1N1.2827@newsfe07.iad...

> While surfing, my electricity went off for about a second. The computer

> worked okay after rebooting. Then I decided to cleanup the disk and run a

> defrag on my C. The big glob of unmovable files, which used to be at the

> left end of the defrag screen, now appeared in three pieces at the extreme

> right side, and there was a big blank space on the left where the

> unmovable files used to be.

>

> Defrag moved files into that clear space. Now I'm concerned that the

> heads have to sweep the entire disk to read the unmovable files. Won't

> that cause excessive thrashing and wear of the HDD? Before, the unmovable

> files invariable occupied the extreme left end and were always in one

> piece, I liked the looks of that.

>

 

LOL, the "Green stuff" is usually just the page file. One large file in a

few pieces makes no difference, it's many small fragmented small files and

not enough RAM that causes thrashing.

 

If you are so concerned you can get Pagefile Defrag from Sysinternals. I

can't look up the URL at ther moment, but it's freeware from a reputable

source.

 

Though I expect you could just tell windows to delete the pagefile after the

next boot and it would have a similar effect.

 

You should run chkdsk just to make sure your file system is intact.

 

HTH.