"Defrag" is short for "defragment," which is a maintenance task required by your hard drives. Most hard drives have spinning platters, with data stored in different places around that platter. When ...

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Q. Often when I go to defrag my computer, I have to analyze the drive first to see if it needs to be defragged. Most of the time it says it doesn’t need to be. Is it OK to defrag anyway? Will it hurt ...

QUESTION: My problem is computer "freeze up". Whenever I try to defrag my computer or run a thorough scandisk, these programs will run for a while and then suddenly the computer will freeze up. The ...

Q. I went to defrag my computer and this came up: "chkdsk is scheduled to run on volume please run chkdsk/f." I did the run part, and nothing happened. Can you help me get rid of this so that I can do ...