How to Defragment Hard Drives?

What is Fragmentation?

Fragmentation is a condition in which the contents of a single file are stored in different locations. This results in lack of performance mainly when playing high-end games and using high-end applications like Adobe After Effects. Many of the system tuning softwares recommend Fragmentation as their first step. But you can do this in a built-in feature of Windows. Doing defragmentation quickly improves performance of the system.

How to defragment hard drives?

Step 1:

Click on Start button and Type “Defragment and optimize your drives”.

Step 2:

There will be a list of drives. You can choose “Analyze” to check how much your partition is fragmented or you can directly choose “Optimize” to start defragmenting your drives.