Hardware & Devices

24-Jan-10 4:35

How often should one defrag one's hard disk (or partitions)? Is defragmentation really useful?

Jörgen Andersson26-Jan-10 10:11

Jörgen Andersson

26-Jan-10 10:11

The answer is simply, it depends.

I'm running automatic defragmentation every week for our fileservers and databases.
A drive that's used only for reading don't need it.
A workstation ends up somewhere inbetween.

There are several points with defragmentation:
Reading a file from the disk is faster if it's contiguous. (unless you have a solid state drive)
Less file segments takes less space in the MFT which might make the drive a bit faster.
In the case of a harddisk crash the chance that a recovery tool will be able to save your data is greatly enhanced if the files are contiguous.

Overusing defragmentation is of course pointless as it shortens the life of the disk and everything gets slow during the actual defragmentation.

Abhinav S26-Jan-10 17:49

26-Jan-10 17:49

Thanks.

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Jörgen Andersson27-Jan-10 4:01

Jörgen Andersson

27-Jan-10 4:01

You're welcome.

carlecomm27-Jan-10 15:35

carlecomm

27-Jan-10 15:35

Defraging your hard disk(or partitions) must be useful. But you cannot do it too often. Once a month is enough, or it will certainly damage the hard disk.

modified 27-May-14 4:55am.

Abhinav S14-Feb-10 7:19

14-Feb-10 7:19

Thanks

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khalid_siddique10-Feb-10 0:20

khalid_siddique

10-Feb-10 0:20

Every three months

Abhinav S14-Feb-10 7:18

14-Feb-10 7:18

Cool. Thanks.

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T21024-Apr-10 20:26

T2102

4-Apr-10 20:26

Not that often. You should defrag your computer new, after you install the programs you use, and then once every three to six months. If defragmentation is still a serious problem, you should just buy a larger hard drive and clone your current one. Total cost may be around $120 for 500 GB laptop drive or 1TB and associated enclosure to use for cloning.

What is this ?

Mohammad Dayyan23-Jan-10 1:10

Mohammad Dayyan

23-Jan-10 1:10

Hi,
this is behind of my laptop[^]
I wonder,
Could you tell me , what the area is for that I had been marked it ?

markkuk23-Jan-10 5:46

markkuk

23-Jan-10 5:46

I believe that's a Mini PCI[^] socket for e.g. WLAN cards.

fat_boy28-Jan-10 22:10

fat_boy

28-Jan-10 22:10

ts a PCI express port, commonly used for modules such as HSDPA and so on. If it IS for a HSDPA card you will also have a SIM holder somewhere on the laptop, possibly in the battery tray.

THis is what an HSDPA module looks like: http://www.option.com/en/products/products/modules/[^]

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Dan Neely29-Jan-10 2:35

Dan Neely

29-Jan-10 2:35

Are you sure? I thought that a mini PCIe slot still had the notch between the two segments of the contact and was smaller than that. I think markkuk was right in calling it the older mini pci port.

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

How to put a program onto a netbook.

fat_boy1-Feb-10 6:14

fat_boy

1-Feb-10 6:14

You are correct, since you can see inside the slot you can tell which is which.

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Dalek Dave20-Jan-10 10:46

Dalek Dave

20-Jan-10 10:46

I have a netbook that has no Optical Drive.

I have a CD that I wish to put onto the netbook. (it is a game that will require access to the cd)

Is it possible to copy the disk to a memory stick and then run it as a psuedo optical drive?

I suspect the drive ID will have to be reassigned, but I cannot for the life of me remember how to do this, and is it even possible for me to make this work?

I may seem a little dim on this but any help would be appreciated.

(I am going on holiday shortly and would like a couple of games that I normally play on my main computer to be on my little 'un)

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Re: How to put a program onto a netbook.

Dan Neely20-Jan-10 11:18

Dan Neely

20-Jan-10 11:18

Two discrete option and one hand waving suggestion.

0) Copy the CD to a usb stick/network share/etc as a bunch of files and then run the setup program. This should work unless there's CD check DRM or a crappy installer involved.

1) If 0) fails, rip the CD to an ISO; then use daemon tools. This should handle any bot the most noxious DRM/copy protection schemes.

2) If 1) fails, start looking for how the warez types are installing this one.

3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18

Re: How to put a program onto a netbook.

Luc Pattyn20-Jan-10 11:23

Luc Pattyn

20-Jan-10 11:23

Look for VirtualCD or some other CD emulator; create the virtual disk(s) on a system that has a physical CD drive, then move it to your netbook (i.e. install VirtualCD on both). I have used VirtualCD on a system with CD drive to avoid having to insert the CD each time to get some games started.

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Transfering Image from Digital Camera to PC

TommyTomToms11-Jan-10 22:56

TommyTomToms

11-Jan-10 22:56

Hi all,

I need to somehow transfer an image from a digital camera to a PC. Without using a memory card etc. i.e. live feed. (Very high res pictures)

- I could use a webcam but the quality is not very good.
- I was thinking about using a HD video camera and sending the streaming video to the video input (on the graphics card). The problem is quality (I need atlest +-8 megapixel image) and costs.

Can modern Digital SLR cameras do what I am asking. Send pictures taken, directly to PC. If so what is this feature called?

Thanks

WoutL12-Jan-10 0:56

WoutL

12-Jan-10 0:56

There are cameras with WiFi.

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Richard MacCutchan12-Jan-10 1:03

Richard MacCutchan

12-Jan-10 1:03

Digital video is usually transferred direct by FireWire connection, and some digital still camers have direct USB connections. I would suggest researching digital camera websites, as they are likely to be trialling the latest options.