Defragmenting

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Billy

Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the HP
laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag any
drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when its
through, is this normal?

Billy
 
Billy - there will always be "red bars" - there are areas that cannot be
defragmented. The recovery partition usually cannot be accessed
"normally" - usually a secure site.
Defrag is helpful if a lot of file movement, installations and so forth are
performed - fragmentation does not occur if there is no disk activity - the
recovery partition is static - no activity.
 
My recovery disk is accesible to defragment and the diskkeeper trial has
defragmented it! I hope that will not have rendered it un=usable? I did
make a recovery disk as suggseted at the first boot.

Billy
 
You don't do anything to mess with the recovery partition - including
defragging. You may shoot yourself in the foot by doing so. Leave it alone.
Many manufacturers hide this partition so that it can't be touched, just for
that reason.

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Billy said:
Can I ask if I should have defragged my recovery drive/partiotion on the
HP laptop? Using diskeeper 2007 it doesn't seem to completely defrag any
drives? There's always a good deal of red fragmented bars even when its
through, is this normal?
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Defragmenting the recovery partition is of absolutely no value. It's not
used for file access on a regular basis. It's a very occasional, and
hopefully never, used set of files. Leave them be. Defragmentation is over
rated even on the operational drives.
 
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