HD cleaning querry

Fidelis

What is best thing to do to clean the HD bar actually formatting the thing ?
After having done the defrag, maps in counter-strike loaded faster, so what else can be done ? ScanDisk ? DiskCleanup ?
And how often should I be defragging ?
Cheers.

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Lenny

Well as for the defrag..
when you open the defrag proggy, it does a quick scan then tells you how much of your HD is defragged, if it's about 70%+ not defragged, you should go and defrag it then..
usually every couple of week's should do, unless you're always installing and uninstalling program's etc.

Kali

Its pointless defragging more than once a month on your home system.

Also if anyone can point me to proper scandisk and defrag utilities I'd be most happy, as I'm ****ed off with the standard windows ones restarting if i move the mouse or something similiar.

SickBoy

Norton speeddisk is pretty good. Download the trial version.

Stonemason

Na the best way is to first remove said HD from the case unscrew the backing plate now you may have to drill pot rivets on some drives.Then get a very fine sandpaper from your local hardware shop and in small circular motion rub very Gently on the inner disk.This is will rid you of all unwanted data in no time.

Disclaimer the undersigned will not be held responsible for any loony silly enough to do this.

Stone

Kegser

Norton System Works are the best bog-standard set of Utilities around in my opinion.

And the bundled Windows Registry Editor 0wns MS regedit.

chernobyl

perosnally, if its gone that bad, then i format and reinstall the OS.i dont bother with defrag as i dont find the time taken justifies the performance gain but a clean install will guarentee a return in speed.

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Stephen

Windows 2000 defragments each of my hard drives in under an hour