What is fragmentation and defragmentation?

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" Fragmentation and defragmentation are the contrary part of each other. Fragmentation occurs while free non use worthy space is created among files on your disk drives. Fragmentation waste your space while defragmentation is used to utilize that space efficiently."

Fragmentation

Fragmentation as the name implies fragments your data means when you store any data on your hard disk then it simply stores the files where it gets the place on your hard disk. So data files are fragmented and stores themselves place to place and leave the small holes or space place to place on your hard disk which fragments your disk drives. This phenomenon is called fragmentation.
Fragmentation wastes your hard drive space and also reduces your data access speed.

Defragmentation

Defragmentation is the contrary process of fragmentation in which blank space is removed by keeping all relevant data files together. Defragmentation also wipe out blank space a lot from your drives and increase your data access time as well. To overcome the problem of fragmentation you need to defragment it. In order to defragment your drive press windows key and then type Defragment and click on defragment and optimize your drive. It will pop up a window which holds the information about your drives fragmentations.
If your drive is fragmented click on optimize it and set optimization settings on daily. You are good to go now.

So we have learned now, fragmentation and defragmentation? and how it increase or decrease your data access time. So keep learning from computerflicks. Please leave comments.

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