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Hi all. OK, I've been doing this for awhile now, and this is my first post in the advanced forum, hopefully it goes here.
I've taken the advice of lots of you and regularly defragment my hard drive f: which contains my video files. I did it today and it defragmented without a problem. Immediately afterward, I backed up a DVD using Shrink. That's ALL I've done on f: since the defragmentation. Out of curiosity, since lately it seems like my f: drive gets fragmented very frequently, I went back to look at the defragmentation report AFTER I backed up this one DVD. While the analysis told me I don't need to defrag the drive again, the picture I got is bothersome because it shows that the video_ts folder full of files that Shrink just created is very fragmented. Here's the picture (if the system will let me post it):
[well, I tried to insert the picture but it didn't make it ... take my word for it, it's got lots of red lines indicating fragmented files ... BTW how can we add pictures? I did the img thing with brackets but that didn't work -- I was trying to upload from my c: drive but maybe we can't do that?]
My question is, can someone tell me why the first files I add after defragmenting (the .vob, .bup, .ifo files in the video_ts folder) are themselves so fragmented? And second, could this at some point hinder a good burn because the fragments of the files are all over the f: drive? Maybe I'm worrying over nothing, but I can't figure out why the new files are themselves so fragmented. And FYI, I regularly delete files of DVDs I've backed up & "clean sweep" the f: drive.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me understand the logic of this stuff!
Karen H.--Dell Optiplex GX240, P4 1.50ghz, 256mb RAM (yeah, I need more), Windows XP Pro w/SP1, 80gb c: drive (replaced the 20gb c: that crashed), 126gb i: drive, 124gb j: drive, 500gb external hard drive partitioned into k: and l: drives, Sony DDU1621/C1 DVD-ROM to rip/encode, Sony DRX-530UL to burn, new Sony DRX-840U to burn DL discs ... need a new computer to go with it!!
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