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Is my drive performance being affected? Is this something I should be worrying about?
So I bought a 1TB hard drive to replace my 320gb hard drive. I did a clone with EaseUS and moved all the data to the 1TB. I've since installed about 100-150gb of games from my steam library. Afterwards I did a defrag. Defraggler said I had 90gb of fragmented files at 14%. However Windows did an update without me knowing and now defraggler is saying I had 156gb of fragmented files at 27%.
I've run the defrag multiple times and the fragments get smaller and smaller but the size of the files never decreases. Upon further inspection the 156gb fragmented file is the System Volume Information file. I've no idea how that got fragmented I didn't think it was even possible.
No matter how much I defrag the drive that file will won't move. When I click the file and try to defrag it specifically, defraggler says there is nothing to defrag.
I'm not sure if this is related but after the "failed" defrag during the windows update I've noticed about 100gb of space was magically filled in on the hard drive. I've no idea where the data came from.
After I installed my games I had 450gb-ish of free space left. I did the defrag, Windows updated and restarted the PC, came back and noticed the defrag didn't do much and that the drive was now populated by for all I know, jelly.
Here's an image.
All the red at the bottom of the drive is the volume information, the scattered red squares at the top are other system files that also will not be defragged.
So I bought a 1TB hard drive to replace my 320gb hard drive. I did a clone with EaseUS and moved all the data to the 1TB. I've since installed about 100-150gb of games from my steam library. Afterwards I did a defrag. Defraggler said I had 90gb of fragmented files at 14%. However Windows did an update without me knowing and now defraggler is saying I had 156gb of fragmented files at 27%.
I've run the defrag multiple times and the fragments get smaller and smaller but the size of the files never decreases. Upon further inspection the 156gb fragmented file is the System Volume Information file. I've no idea how that got fragmented I didn't think it was even possible.
No matter how much I defrag the drive that file will won't move. When I click the file and try to defrag it specifically, defraggler says there is nothing to defrag.
I'm not sure if this is related but after the "failed" defrag during the windows update I've noticed about 100gb of space was magically filled in on the hard drive. I've no idea where the data came from.
After I installed my games I had 450gb-ish of free space left. I did the defrag, Windows updated and restarted the PC, came back and noticed the defrag didn't do much and that the drive was now populated by for all I know, jelly.
Here's an image.
All the red at the bottom of the drive is the volume information, the scattered red squares at the top are other system files that also will not be defragged.
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