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b drive
About this tag
The b drive tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about a partition labeled B: on a Windows system, often used as a secondary or backup volume. In the available thread, a user shares their experience defragmenting a B: drive, which is a partition of the C: drive, and notes that defragmenting it improved read/write speeds not only on the B: drive but also on other drives like C: and D:. The user observes that a single large fragmented file on the B: drive appeared to slow down the entire computer. This tag is relevant for Windows users managing multiple partitions, performing disk defragmentation, and troubleshooting performance issues related to drive fragmentation.
Hi
I posed a few days ago someplace that I found that defragmenting my C:\ drive gave me a real increase in read speed. From about 3 Mbs to 30.
I defraged my B:\ drive (a partition of C:\) and today I tacked D:\ it was a long haul, mostly because it has the compressed back up of C:\ on it...