if you never defrag id hate to see how slow your computers are moving! honestly, its not hard to do and really speeds up your pc. windows 2000 up should do it fine always, and for 9x series you need to kill all background processes. [img]smile.gif[/img]

yep. And if you want a guaranteed defrag (i.e no not working or stopping in the middle) then run your computer in safe mode, that is a sure fire way to get it to work

hmmm
will try that...

1 Terrabyte is good but it's never enough! Running a 60GB, 80GB and 120GB in this thing and still need more space! Only bad thing with a hard drive that big however is that when they finally do release them in internal drives they would probably mean me selling my internal organs to afford it...heh

jesus Bokken, what the hell have you got on your comp that takes up a total of 260gb!!?!!

260?!?!?!?!?

I only have 10 Gb and i survive just fine. Only two games installed at once though :D

Well I've got a hell of a lot of games and programs to begin with. I'm a computer technician so I also keep backups of every damn piece of software I own. Among things anyway.

To put it simple though I instal windows and any programs I use on drive C: (60GB)

All games go on D: (80GB)

All backups go on E: (120GB)

May seem like much but it actually isn't if you put it that way.

Oh and just fyi about a year and a half ago I was still running a 3.2GB HDD and a 233MHZ NEC Versanote with a 2MB graphics card. Thinking back to it now it's sad knowing I finished BG2 on it. Had to keep the comp clean from most software just to instal it and give it a big enough cache so my graphics card didn't die out on me and stutter like a geizer. Helped a bit but not enough!

Sorry mate, but this shows that you obviously have no idea what fragmentation is and hence why you need to defrag. The only people that never need to defrag are those that don't run any applications and hence the content of their hard disk never changes - i.e. virtually no one.

I wouldn't ask if I were you, unless you want him to discuss x-rated material on a family board :D


Johnny - glad I make sense to you, no one else understands us jokers anyway :D

[ 01-24-2004, 03:55 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]

No it isn't, most hard drive manufacturers (including this one apparently) use the IEC definition of a gigabyte, which is defined as 10^9 bytes, so a terabyte would them be 10^12 bytes. The size isn't calculated incorrectly, its just the standard is weird. What you are describing would, according to IEC, actually be a "tebibyte" (1 TiB) I'm not making this up. I believe that the ISO definition also uses the 10^9 Bytes definition of 1 GB. It is a rather stupid standard, but as far as hard drives it's what the manufacturers go with.