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PC Adviser 101 | Solving PC Problems - Boosting PC Performance » Fragmented Files http://www.pcadviser101.com Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:30:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Fragmented Files | How To Fix Fragmented Files http://www.pcadviser101.com/fragmented-files-how-to-fix-fragmented-files/ http://www.pcadviser101.com/fragmented-files-how-to-fix-fragmented-files/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:09:45 +0000 admin http://www.pcadviser101.com/?p=83 Fragmented Files | “I couldn’t believe the number of errors and junk it found in my system! Thanks for great recommendation.”  Fragmented files need to be well fixed up for optimum data recovery and data access. All hard disks of a PC have a finite storage capacity. This implies that when a large file is to be written to the disk, there may or may not be»

]]> Fragmented Files | “I couldn’t believe the number of errors and junk it found in my system! Thanks for great recommendation.”  Fragmented files need to be well fixed up for optimum data recovery and data access. All hard disks of a PC have a finite storage capacity. This implies that when a large file is to be written to the disk, there may or may not be a contiguous storage space for it. As a result of which, the file will have to be written more than one locations and hence it gets fragmented. The intricate details of how the file is fragmented will be stored separately as a part of the directory structure, or file details, and therefore when reading the file, the fragmentation is invisible to the user, or the application program using the required files.

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Fragmented files require as higher seek time in the PCs as compared to sequential files. Henceforth, many utilities are available to defragment a disk and keep the PCs performance to an optimum level. Different Operating Systems work in different ways to reduce fragmentation. The major problem to be tackled is that the size of the file is not known when a new file is created.

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As of which it becomes difficult to know where to put a new file in the biggest possible space, or in a reasonable space early in the disk depending upon the best fit or first fit mode employed by the Operating System. Disks with high storage capacity but lower usage and shorter files cause lower fragmentation. Fragmentation would be extensive for longer files which have to be stored in low capacity, high usage disks.

Fragmented files can be recovered with Recovery software. The first step is to find the starting address of the file in the disk. The start of files can be obtained from their unique signature, or pattern of data. For a very long file with many fragments, each has to be found and then the file is stitched together. Shorter files encounter the problem of location of the start of the first file fragment in the disk. FragmentedFiles | “I couldn’t believe the number of errors and junk it found in my system! Thanks for great recommendation.”

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