1. How to remove drive
Fragmentation?
Drive Fragmentation

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Drive Status Before Defragmentation
Drive Status After Defragmentation

3. What is Disk Fragmentation?
 When data is saved in a HDD, it gets broken into
different parts and these different parts are
saved in multiple locations. This causes
Fragmentation of files.
 It is also known as disk aging.
 Lots of and unused space are created on the HDD
and this affects the processing speed and
performance of Computer.
 To remove disk fragmentation we need to defrag
it.

4. Effects of Fragmentation?
 Processing speed and performance of the Mac OS
X decreases.
 Reading and writing speed on hard drive gets
slower.
 Drive space gets unused and due to
fragmentation lots of unused space slots gets
created on the hard drive.
 Fragmentation reduces the life-span of hard
drive.

5. How to defragment HDD?
 In Mac, there is a automatic defrag tool. This tool
will defrag all the files having size upto 20MB.
To defrag files above 20MB you need to install a
third party software in Mac.
 Stellar Drive Defrag is a very effective tool to
defragment the Mac hard drive and volumes.
It is compatible with the Mac OS X Lion, 10.6,
10.5 and 10.4.

6. Stellar Drive Defrag
Salient features of this tool:
 It works very effective for defragmentation of
Mac hard drive and volumes.
 It can also defrags boot volume by creating the
bootable DVD.
 This tool can execute full defragmentation of the
hard drive and data.
 It can also do meta data defragmentation.
 This software has the feature of quick
defragmentation that eliminates the need to
perform full defragmentation.

7. Things to remember before
defragmenting HDD!!
 Defragmentation of HDD should not be done very
frequently as it can shorten the life of the hard
drive.
 Defragmentation process of the drive takes a lot
of time.
 Take proper backup of data before doing
defragmentation as there is a possibility of
losing the data.

8. By:
Tom Addison
Author Bio:
Tom Addison is an expert in data recovery
techniques and he provides information and
solution for Mac OS X related products.