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What does the health of my hdd is degraded mean?
I just used Diskeeper and did an analysis and this is the info I got. My computer has been freezing at random points, from playing games to doing nothing. Could it be that I need to replace my hard drive?
Health
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Warning!
The overall health of volume C: is degraded
The overall health is at "Warning" level for the following
reasons:
1. The volume is moderately fragmented. The count of low
performing fragments is 349.
Statistics
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Volume Files
Volume size = 597 GB
Cluster size = 4 KB
Used space = 97 GB
Free space = 498 GB
Percent free space = 83 %
Free Space Fragmentation
Percent low performing free space: = 0 %
Total free space extents: = 1,019
Largest free space extent: = 252 GB
Average free space extent size: = 501 MB
Low-Performing files percentage
% of entire volume = 0 %
% of used space = 0 %
Directory fragmentation
Total directories = 16,077
Fragmented directories = 2
Excess directory fragments = 9
File fragmentation
Total files = 68,874
Average file size = 1,507 KB
Total fragmented files = 122
Total excess fragments = 443
Average fragments per file = 1.00
Files with performance loss = 50
Paging file fragmentation
Paging/Swap file size = 2,047 MB
Total fragments = 2
Master File Table (MFT) fragmentation
Total MFT size = 138 MB
MFT records In Use = 85,682
Percent MFT in use = 60 %
Total MFT fragments = 1
I did defrag, many times using Tuneup Utilities, the defrag from Windows, and when using the defrag from Diskeeper, my computer keeps freezing up.
Any suggestions? Defrag isn't getting rid of the problem.
3 Answers
- ItachisXeyesLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
it means you need to defragment
use this: http://www.piriform.com/defraggler
its a lot better then the windows defragmenter
EDIT:
well then i'd be scared. if your only using one fifth of your total disk space. get an external drive now and back up all your personal data, because your internal hard disk is probably on the way out.
what i would do, is DEFIANTLY back up your personal data. and make sure you have installation media for your operating system. then get a low level format tool for your drive (which can be downloaded for free from your hard drive manufacturer for example if you have a seagate drive you would download seatools for dos) and write zeros to every block on your disk and do a reinstall of the operating system doing a full format (takes longer but makes sure there is less chance of corrupt file system)
and if you still get disk health errors then you actually have hard disk failure.
if it runs smoothly then, you have backups of your personal information, and can continue on your way. which means you just had some file system corruption which sometimes happens on older drives and/or when you do hard stops.
- 5 years ago
I can't read the question as it's now been deleted. What one person finds degrading another might not. Surely everyone has their own definition of what degradation mean. For example; a young girl who was brought up in a sheltered environment by extremely strict parents may not have the same view on sexual acts as a girl who is 'streetwise'. Another example would be pornography. To some its degrading to women and yet to others it's just a job that pays well. If women are forced to do acts they find degrading, for whatever reason, then its gone from degradation to assault. We all have our own ideas on what is right and wrong and the main thing is to respect ourselves isn't it?
