For the last couple months I’ve been troubleshooting a vexing problem on my new quad-core HP desktop: Roughly once per week, the machine would start running as slow as molasses. And I mean slow: ...

i have 3 partitions and the first two (OS and documents) defrag perfectly with no problems. They have 8gb and 5 gb respectively. However, my big e drive doesn't defragment. I contains all my games, ...

Q: I just got a new ultralight notebook for when I travel. It has one of those super-fast solid-state drives. My maintenance program for my regular hard-drive computers in the office includes ...

It is quite possible to make a scenario where fragmentation is inevitable.<BR>For example, take a 40GB drive. Consider it 0% fragmented with 10GB of free space near the end.<BR>Now delete 10GB from ...