Does defragmenting your hard drive only open more space on your drive or does it do other stuff?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by mizat0:
Does defragmenting your hard drive only open more space on your drive or does it do other stuff?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

nope. defragmenting your hard-drive does not free up space. over time, files that you've downloaded, deleted, moved, etc, all go to different places in the hard-drive. what defragmenting is that it brings all the files together. That means your pc runs a little faster because it can acess the files faster much. http://www.alliedassault.com/ubb/wink.gif
http://www.homecraft.com/OYC/SUPPORT/win95q03.html

here's how to defrag:
http://www.homecraft.com/OYC/SUPPORT/win95q03.html

you should run Scandisk as well. here: [URL=http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/usingwindows/maintaining/tips/beginner/scandisk.asp]http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/usingwindows/maintaining/tips/beginner/scandisk.asp[/ URL]

"Through normal use of your computer, your hard disk drive can become cluttered and a bit messy. And folders can become cross-linked, file names can contain invalid or unknown characters or become damaged, and file names can become disassociated with their files. ScanDisk can fix these and other problems for you"

btw, what frees up space for your pc is running Disk Cleanup. here:

Go to My Computer, right-click your C drive, click on Properties, and then Disk Cleanup. then just click OK.


[This message has been edited by Dodd (edited January 20, 2002).]

aiight, thnx dodd