Thread: Defragmenting!
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Old 23-03-2006, 07:15   #12
entwisi
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Re: Defragmenting!

It may release wasted space depending on how badly fragmented your disk is. What it does in a Windows environment is make it quicker as the head doesn't need to jump about the disk to load a file into memory.

so in Windows, yes its needed.
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