Why would i have to defragment my computer and would i loose any important info doing so?
Actually, defragmenting ones computer drive is somewhat overrated. Imagine your hard drive is a box with 100 partitions in it. Now imagine you have a ‘file’ that is 3 sheets of paper. Your computer might store those sheets in partitions 32, 65, and 86. It knows *exactly* where each sheet is, they’re just put in physically disparate locations. When you defrag the hard drive, those 3 sheets get put in partitions 4,5 and 6, so that they can be found and retrieved more quickly. I sometimes go *months* between defrags, and I notice very little performance loss (or gain when I finally do defrag). The other nice thing about defragging the drive is that the software does a reasonably thorough check of the entire disk. This can reveal problems that you might need to correct before they get worse. Also, while I will never say “never” when it comes to computers, I cannot recall hearing of an instance when someone lost data during a defragmentation process. So, defrag if it makes you happy, or put
