If you turn on your computer, the hard drive will become fragmented.
[[Volumes become fragmented as users create and delete files and folders,
install new software, or download files from the Internet. Computers
typically save files in the first contiguous free space that is large enough
for the file. If a large enough free space is not available, the computer
saves as much of the file as possible in the largest available space and
then saves the remaining data in the next available free space, and so on.
After a large portion of a volume has been used for file and folder storage,
most of the new files are saved in pieces across the volume. When you delete
files, the empty spaces left behind fill in randomly as you store new ones.
The more fragmented the volume is, the slower the computer's file
input/output performance will be.]]
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...all/proddocs/en-us/defrag_why_fragmented.mspx
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