Re: Fragmentation Frequency

From: PaddyBob (PaddyBob_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/26/05 

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:19:52 -0000

"PaddyBob" <PaddyBob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "Andy" <Andy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>>
>> Since installing XP and installing a new hard drive, the disk is becoming
>> fragmented on almost a daily basis. Has anyone run into this same
>> problem,
>> and how did you fix it?
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Try using a SWAP-File on one partition only (preferably turn the SWAP file
> off on the drive which contains your OS) First of all this will improve
> you PC performance, as the pc doesn't have to Swap between partitions
> anymore and 2nd your harddrives will become less defragmented. If you have
> 1Gig or more of RAM installed, you can also disable to SWAP-file
> completely (I have 2Gig in one of my machines and it flies without that
> SWAP-file as RAM is way faster as the harddrive)
>
> I hope this helped you a bit.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Robert

PS: With SWAP-File I meant Pagefile... sometimes I confuse the terminology
between OS'es... Sorry for that

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