{"id":44381,"date":"2019-04-09T03:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T17:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=44381"},"modified":"2019-04-05T16:12:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T06:12:34","slug":"windows-10-defragment-device-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-10-defragment-device-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 Defragment Device Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/defragment.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows 10 Defragment Device Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/defragment.jpg\" title=\"Windows 10 Defragment Device Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"   \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows 10 Defragment Device Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no doubt if you have a hard disk, still, using Windows (10), you want to maintain that hard disk, because it is (likely that it is) &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the bootable drive for your operating system &#8230; as well as it being &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>the main and most important repository of your information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though that last point is perhaps a moot point these days with online storage ideas such as <a target=_blank title='Good article' href='https:\/\/www.pocket-lint.com\/apps\/buyers-guides\/131520-which-cloud-storage-service-is-right-for-you-icloud-vs-google-drive-vs-onedrive-vs-dropbox'>Google Drive and iCloud and OneDrive and Dropbox<\/a>, it will no doubt still be annoying if you are held up by a misfiring hard disk.  One of the most manageable things you can do to &#8220;massage your hard disk&#8217;s ego&#8221; is to regularly defragment the hard disk, optimising its performance as far as where it stores data, while you operate the Windows system.<\/p>\n<p>These days of Windows 10 sees the &#8220;Defragment and Optimise Drives&#8221; functionality sitting in the &#8220;Windows Administrative Tools&#8221; menu section.<\/p>\n<p>On click or tapping this submenu you will be presented with a list of devices mounted on the Windows system currently.  Select one, the top one no doubt being the Windows 10 system&#8217;s C: hard disk, and you can &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyze<\/li>\n<li>Optimise (includes Analyze)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; your way to a defragmented, and thus, <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/defragment.pdf\" title=\"Click picture\">an &#8220;optimised&#8221; device<\/a>, one of the command line options we talked about previously with <a title='Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial' href='#whdpt'>Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that wasn&#8217;t <b>hard<\/b>, was it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p id='whdpt'>Previous relevant <a target=_blank title='Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial' href='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-hard-disk-primer-tutorial\/'>Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial<\/a> is shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_1.jpg\" title=\"Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows Hard Disk Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Windows, many users would still have at least one hard disk installed.   Typically on Windows that first main disk is called <i>C:<\/i> &#8230; pretty boring name, huh?! &#8230; however, you can give it a nickname (for the &#8220;volume&#8221;) that will show in Windows Explorer, or when you right-click and get the properties of the disk &#8230; you can do this via the Windows Command Prompt (or DOS prompt command) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/labelhlp.htm' title='label information from computerhope'>label<\/a> C: [volumeNickName]<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_3.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_3.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and then to verify this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/volhlp.htm' title='vol information from computerhope'>vol<\/a> C:<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; so that&#8217;s its name &#8230; what about its contents &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/dirhlp.htm' title='dir information from computerhope'>dir<\/a> C: \/s<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_6.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_6.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/treehlp.htm' title='tree information from computerhope'>tree<\/a> C: \/F<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_4.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_4.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and what about its health &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/chkdskhlp.htm' title='chkdsk information from computerhope'>chkdsk<\/a> C:<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_2.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_2.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and fixing things fixable found wrong &#8230; and for this you may need to use a Command Prompt window run by an <i>administrator<\/i> user, and even then, you may only be able to run this at the next reboot, between the shutdown and the restart (when C: is not being accessed)) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/chkdskhlp.htm' title='chkdsk information from computerhope'>chkdsk<\/a> C: \/F<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and we here talk of &#8220;speeding up&#8221; a computer by defragmenting its hard disk &#8230; assuming you have Defrag.exe on your path (otherwise put the whole path to it and the .exe extension, where we have &#8220;Defrag&#8221; below) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='https:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/ff458356.aspx' title='Defrag.exe information'>Defrag<\/a> C:<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_8.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_8.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, with Windows, a second hard disk physically installed would be called <i>D:<\/i> and any C:&#8217;s above in commands will work for D: instead above &#8230; and there are some other mappings to drive letters are possible via (we&#8217;ll use Z: below) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/substhlp.htm' title='subst information from computerhope'>subst<\/a> Z: C:mypath<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_9.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_9.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; or perhaps D: is mapped from somewhere on a file server or file sharing arrangement (we&#8217;ll use T: below, and the image example below that uses a Windows 7 laptop&#8217;s Samba mapping to a MacBook Pro hard disk&#8217;s &#8220;User&#8221; path for its mapping &#8230; got its mapping name via Windows Explorer &#8220;Network&#8221; &#8230; more on this topic at this blog could be gleaned from <a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=12813' title='Windows File Server and File Sharing Primer Tutorial'>Windows File Server and File Sharing Primer Tutorial<\/a>) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\n<a target=_blank href='http:\/\/www.computerhope.com\/nethlp.htm' title='net information from computerhope'>net<\/a> use T: \"\\servermy media\" \/persistent:no<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\n<img onclick=\" window.open('http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_0.jpg', '_blank'); \" src='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/HardDisk\/chkdsk_no_f_0.jpg' title='Defrag' \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and you should not expect that these last two mapping arrangements would support &#8220;chkdsk&#8221; nor &#8220;Defrag&#8221; as further above (which are for real physical hard disks).<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d13990' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d13990\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?tag=drive\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d13990' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d44381' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d44381\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/windows\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d44381' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve no doubt if you have a hard disk, still, using Windows (10), you want to maintain that hard disk, because it is (likely that it is) &#8230; 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