Defragmenting my hard drive (split from old thread "Defragmenting Problems")

[Praxil]

I have a question more than a real problem. I'm afraid to defrag one of my HDDs. The issue is that it is quite fragmented. The full fragmenting is at 24 % and the file(s) fragmenting is at 48 %.

So, the question is that is there a way that some of those files could get corrupted and or broken after defragmenting that HDD?

I can't lose these files and I have noticed that copying files so fragmented to another HDD, could end in to a corrupted file.

[westy159]

I have a question more than a real problem. I'm afraid to defrag one of my HDDs. The issue is that it is quite fragmented. The full fragmenting is at 24 % and the file(s) fragmenting is at 48 %.

So, the question is that is there a way that some of those files could get corrupted and or broken after defragmenting that HDD?

I can't lose these files and I have noticed that copying files so fragmented to another HDD, could end in to a corrupted file.

Heh, no chance of it corrupting up your files.

This is similar to the real world situation of having a messy room but being afraid to clean it because it will, to you, "mess it up".

[Praxil]

yeah, I'm also quite ****ing lazy to...

So, I'm good to go? No problems then? I can't lose any of my files in that HDD. That one is my older HDD though. The one right now with OS is in perfect order.

[Simetrical]

Defragmentation will not damage your hard drive. However, if you're concerned about your disk, back it up! Hard disks have a failure rate of five or ten percent annually. Any disk could die at any time, and you should always be prepared to pick up the pieces. If there's nothing important on your computer, there's no problem, but if there is, you had better be backing up regularly. Defragging won't do anything, but bad luck sure will.

[Praxil]

Defragging that HDD took more than 7 hours .

Yup, I have three HDDs at the moment. The one of them has all needed drivers, patches and mods for games (as they are quite huge these days) backed up. I use it only in two cases to update it with never drivers and patches, and in case where I need them (that HDD isn't hooked in to PC like other(s)). That way I don't need internet connection if I have to for example install OS (windows). All I have to do is hook up my backup HDD and it has all drivers I need to that case.