what Defragmentation is
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When a computer stores a file, it starts at the first available spot on the disk and keeps writing until it bumps into something else, then it finds the next available spot and leaves a little note that the different parts of a file are in different spots. Defragmentation is when you go through and move all the files around so they’re all in one piece instead of being written partway through each other. You do this because if everything is thoroughly chopped up, it takes longer to read and write files because you have to keep going back to those notes on where everything is.
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