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LangaList: “I know to de-fragment my HDD and not to de-fragment my SSD. Do I de-fragment my hybrid drive?”

Posted on April 26, 2019 at 07:28 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Interesting question – without a simple answer.

Follow Fred’s advice on Langa.com.

Hardware Disk Defrag, LangaList
Fred Langa: Why does Disk Defrag (Win7) fail, despite plenty of room?

Posted on October 5, 2018 at 13:01 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

And you thought Langalist was dead…. Naw. It’s just morphing, gradually, into a blog.

A reader asks: Why does Disk Defrag fail, despite plenty of room?

Windows News Disk Defrag

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