Re: defrag

Neither defragmenting nor anything else you can do with software will 'blow up the motherboard'. There is nothing you need to do before defragmenting your hard disk.

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Ted Zieglar
"Backup is a computer user's best friend."

suewoo wrote:
do I have to do anything prior to defraging my computer, like scan disk or cleanup? My husband blew up the mother board on our old comp by doing something with the defrag and now I am scared to do it, please help!
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