Can "special" hard disk drive files be defraged
Hi Experts,
I'm on a WinXP SP3 box and use O&O Defrag v11.5. My question is regarding the following information from a recent defrag report.
Fragments Clusters File Name
25 58 C:\$Secure:$SII:$INDEX_ALL
24 53 C:\$Secure:$SDH:$INDEX_ALL
13 9,550 C:\$Secure:$SDS:$DATA
8 10 C:\$MFT::$BITMAP
Question:
1. Is it safe to defrag these files, provided first I image the drive for full restore capability.
2. If I defrag these files, will there be a marginal performance boost?
Thanks much.
I'm on a WinXP SP3 box and use O&O Defrag v11.5. My question is regarding the following information from a recent defrag report.
Fragments Clusters File Name
25 58 C:\$Secure:$SII:$INDEX_ALL
24 53 C:\$Secure:$SDH:$INDEX_ALL
13 9,550 C:\$Secure:$SDS:$DATA
8 10 C:\$MFT::$BITMAP
Question:
1. Is it safe to defrag these files, provided first I image the drive for full restore capability.
2. If I defrag these files, will there be a marginal performance boost?
Thanks much.
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Thanks for points.
Take care.
Take care.
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Thanks for the replies.
Where there are multiple good answers, I typically allocate the points equally to all Experts. If I select one response, then don't acknowledge the effort and expertise of the other Experts. I feel that is disrespectful since I'm the person asking the question (e.g. don't have sufficient knowledge).
O&O has boot defrag option before Windows locks the files.
Again, thanks much for your responses.