Respected Subramani Sir the Great,
Fragmentation occurs when the operating system cannot or will not allocate enough contiguous space to store a complete file as a unit, but instead puts parts of it in gaps between other files (usually those gaps exist because they formerly held a file that the operating system has subsequently deleted or because the operating system allocated excess space for the file in the first place). Larger files and greater numbers of files also contribute to fragmentation and consequent performance loss. Defragmentation attempts to alleviate these problems. A defragmentation program must move files around within the free space available to undo fragmentation. This is a memory intensive operation and cannot be performed on a file system with no free space. The above explaination was copied from one site. Now I will try to explain what does formatting means. When we format our computer, our operating system gets deleted. Before we can use any hard disk, we need to setup some basic structure like partitions. Now when we format hard disk, we delete the operating system, the temperary files, the unused registry keys and lot more things. When we use format, there are two options one is quick format and other is normal format. If we use quick format, the temperary files etc are not deleted. I always recommend normal format. With this, I will also talk about the term "wipe space". You must have hurd that even if you have deleted some file from computer, you can recover it using data recovery softwares. Have you ever wondered why so? Because there is one term "wipe space". It stores the information of deleted files etc. So if normal format is used, we delete that wipe space too. If you are using CCleaner, then in advance options you must have seen a check box of clear wipe space. But it consumes lot of time. Sir I am not a tech expert, but still sharing whatever I know. So please excuse me for the errors. I really don't know about the precautions to be taken while defragging. For defragmenting, please do as this: Go to Start>All programs>Accesseries>System tools>Disk Defragmenter. Select the drive to be defragmented from the list view, once analyze it, and then click on defragment button. Formatting requires sighted assistance. Backup the data before formatting. Insert the windows cd, if it autoruns, exit. Restart, and keep pressing enter right after restart means, before your windows welcome screen comes. Like how we go into bios or safe mode etc. Pressing enter should start booting from cd, if it doesn't, bios settings needs to be changed. Can't describe that, it is bit difficult. Once successfully booted from cd, follow the screen instructions, and you can format. Again, sighted assistance is required everywhere while formatting since no sound is there to help us. I don't say formatting is difficult or risky like other computer experts, the only thing is that it requires your attention and understanding of the instructions. For sure, once attention goes and misunderstanding comes, everything is gone! And otherwise, "no risk, no game!" Hope I was of bit help. With Regards, Amar Jain. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Subramani L" <lsubram...@deccanherald.co.in> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 8:21 PM Subject: Re: [AI] extremely severe problem, help please! One more thing: when you do defrag, will the files get affected? What precautions to take? Subramani -----Original Message----- From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in [mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of samuel rodrigues Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:19 PM To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in Subject: Re: [AI] extremely severe problem, help please! Okay my suggestion: format is the right option for you. Before that, make sure, You have backed up the entire drive what ever is required by you. Second: Make sure hope so, that you have one of the latest antivirus with you. third: When you format the drives, make sure, you dont put your data there. Before putting any data, or connecting to the internet, just install your antivirus first, after the drivers are installed. I mean, drivers first, and then the antivirus. Then after you've installed the antivirus, connect to the internet, and receive the updates. Next: Final, put back your data, and enjoy. and while putting the data back, make sure, if any virus alert is shown, make sure you take an action, like deleting it, and quaranteing it. I prefer delete anyway. Okay next: if you were putting the data back, and antivirus alerted you that there was a virus in it, make sure, you get rid of the CD/DVD after putting back the data. Once you keep the data on the computer, re-back up your Items for future, in another DVD/CD. Or if it is a flash drive/pen drive, Then you know I'm quite sure, what to do. Hope it is of some use. Regards Samuel On 8/17/09, aisha sahani <mailtoaishasah...@gmail.com> wrote: > Firstly Thanks a lot for the enormous responses to my query. > Glad, that a lot of competent buddies came in with productive > inferences, and have preferred helping me. > So, what should I do now, as a lot of suggestions came in, what’s the > final conclusion? > As told, the harddrive had been completely formatted once, and still > the problem persists. > Some of you have suggested reformatting with all the partitions, > while some have suggested using good antiviruses. > one more brutal has observed, that the official websites of the > antivirus softwares had been blocked by the viruses of my system, or > something. > What happening is that, no website of antivirus is getting open, as > the message comes “can not find server”. > Note: I’ve already tried with quickheal, avira, caspersky, avast, etc, > not even opening the websites. > What’s the suggestion now? > I mean, a final conclusion? > If I go to format the whole system again, what are the things need to > have care at most, so the problem don’t persist again? > Inputs required. > > Aisha sahani. > > > > > > > > > > On 8/15/09, phani srikanth <phani...@gmail.com> wrote: >> it shall not be of hard drive it shall be some virus attacks only. >> >> On 8/14/09, Naushad <canaus...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Don't be foolish, this same problem happened to me once. There was not >>> any problem with hard disk, If it so, problem of hard disk cannot be >>> turned of administrator privileges. >>> >>> On 8/13/2009 10:56 AM, yada...@iocl.co.in wrote: >>>> I had to cope up a similar problem when things seemed to stop working >>>> for >>>> me >>>> in similar fashion. Then Hard Drive was replaced& things came to >>>> order. >>>> Remember, HDDs too have repeat format limitations& may not support >>>> computer >>>> if excessively used up. Besides, care must be taken to enhance the RAM >>>> size >>>> too commensurate with size of the HDD. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> दीनानाथ यादव >>>> निजी सचिव - २ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> This Message was sent from Indian Oil Messaging Gateway, New Delhi, >>>> India. >>>> The information contained in this electronic message and any >>>> attachments >>>> to this message are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) >>>> and >>>> may contain proprietary, confidential or privileged information. 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