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Not being THAT familiar with the inner workings of Mr. Bill's world I'm not exactly sure how Window's defragmenter works. Is it possible that it can cause damage to, or somehow modify a ripped file? I don't see how it can as defragmenting doesn't seem to damage or substantively alter non-audio files (audiophiles? :B ), but I thought some clarification would be good.
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David - Trigger-happy HTGuide Admin -
As I understand it, during computer (and hard disk drive) usage information is stored wherever the hard disk drive has space available. This information can be randomly stored all over the place on the hard disk drive. Over time this slows up the process in which information is accessed by the read-write heads of the drive. When we "defragment" the hard disk drive, all this stored information is accessed and "restored" in a logical and associated location on the hard disk drive and any "fragments" of unusable data are discarded. This not only frees the hard disk drive of useless information (thus creating more space) but also enables easier and faster access by the read-write heads and thus speeds up operations.
No information is lost in the process.
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