In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
<Clip> >But after all the trauma, I wish I'd known about the 'Manage' window >before, it makes life so easy. It has always been there ... :-) ... although now hidden from casual use. >BTW, I just ran a Defrag on my C: drive, the difference it's made is >amazing. Makes me wonder how I put up with the sluggishness recently - >it's months since I last defragmented the hard disk. You can check with a graphical view of the hard drive as to whether it needs a Defrag - use the Analyse option. Every time I use it I get the reassuring answer that the hard drive does not need a Defrag. So, what have you been doing to in recent months ... deleting or moving a lot of files around ... ? >Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever >need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about >that!) As far as Windows is concerned it is just one large file, so it cannot itself be defragmented - which is what happens to the hard drive surface area having gaps between areas of occupied data and areas not occupied by data. The Defrag with DOS/Windows packs the data together, removing the fragments that got separated to be a whole continuous area of data. Internally I don't know how the QXL.WIN holds its directions to information. Yet it will not be affected by defragmenting. I guess someone can look all this up in the manuals ..... -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
