

When fragmented, the drive will take longer to scan the the contents, meaning that your computer takes far longer to boot, applications seem to take an age to open and you may hear more drive access normal.īad fragmentation can also reduce the life-span of your hard drive as it means that the drive has to do more work locating and loading the files.

The larger the drive, the worse the fragmentation. Use your computer for some time, writing files to and from the hard drive and the drive will become fragmented.
