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Anonymous1a

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  1. When I started the defragmentation process, I had just cleared space to about 260GB of free space. Now, I have only have 80GB of free space left and since it's still defragging, the space is constantly going down. I've read on a few other topics that you have to disable VSS before the process but since I've already started - it's about to finish now, after two days! - what am I supposed to do after it finished in order to reclaim all that space? That's almost 20% of my hard drive space, and not just 13 to 20GB, like others have lost, which would be far more palatable.
  2. Did you move any data out of the hard drive, after the process? From what I've seen of my usage of the program (I am not a engineer so this is just what I observed and think is happening), the % of fragmentation is calculated by Total Size of Fragmented Files/Total USED Space. So, when I was doing the defragmentation, I moved space out of my hard drive because people said you need at least 15% of the drive free, I went from 56% fragmentation to 70%. This happens because, for example, if you have 300GB of files that are fragmented, and the total used space is 1000GB - even if your actually hard drive space might be 10 TB in total - you have 30% fragmentation. If, however, you remove 500GB from the hard drive, leaving used space as only 500GB, your hard drive will now be shown as 60% fragmented. I actually did the calculations to check this. But, again, I am not very familiar with defragmentation software so I could be wrong. So, the percentage is now how much that particular partition is fragmented but how much of the used space is.
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