Defragmenting your drive, or defragging, used to be routine basic maintenance. But as our computers have evolved, so has the need to defrag. Here's why we don't need to do that anymore—and what we ...

I have a WD 120 gig 7200rpm hd thats my main drive. I guess my scheduled defragging using norton systemworks has been slackin or something because somehow my disk is 97% fragmented. which explains why ...

Q A friend of mine suggested that I "defragment" my computer every once in a while. He says it will boost performance, but he also said it will move my data around. I tend to be very organized as to ...