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Which tools can recover fragmented files from a partially overwritten NTFS partition? A friend of mine used a clone drive utility without knowing the implications. It looks like he selected the wrong target drive, and, more importantly, he did not unplug unused devices before using such a...

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Hi The image below shows the performance of my drives after being tested by Defraggler. The F drive is the drive that I store my Backup System Image files on, and it is the only one, (based on information that I've read that says don't defrag your backups) that has never been defragmented...

Hi. In earlier windows versions, If I remember correct, I could restore deleted files easy, In recent editions I could not find it anymore, I have bought recuva, It works just fine but it took hours to scan, most time I need to recover single file only and do not need to wait hour(s) to get...

I have a hp pavilion i5 running win 10. It takes 3 min. 40 to boot. I have checked the defrag which shows 78% fragmentation. HP are worst than useless and offer no help. If I use HP recovery it returns to win 7.So can I reinstall win 10 from iso from another machine?The screen after first boot...

Hi.. I m getting error of BSOD ( 0x000001d3,0x000001d8) its happening since last week and I have done disk partition through disk fragmentation Laptop Config: Lenovo G50 , AMD A8 Processor , Win 10 64Bit

Can anyone explain how this disk is only 1% fragmented? Just look at all that red. It doesn't add up.

I am sick of defragmenting really. My largest free space extent is 234.4GB. Why cant Microsoft just improve NTFS to stop fragmentation instead of relying on defragmentation? look at HFS+ and ext4 they prevent fragmentation first!

Hello, I just accidentally deleted 4400 text files (1.5GB) on an NTFS volume that's probably heavily fragmented, although these files were created in a particular sequence. The files contain long columns of numerical data. If the undelete program takes one cluster from one file and another from...

I recently got an external hard drive, and I need help. I finally got Windows running good, after the recent update to 8.1...I do see I have on optimize drives C drive, Winretools(12% fragmented), PBR Image, and some long winded VOLUME file. The VOLUME file is 56% fragmented, and even though...

Anytime I create a backup with True Image, and then analyze it with O&O Defrag, it always shows the entire backup as being fragmented. I have always let it remain that way, because long ago I asked about this somewhere (can't remember now), and was told it was better not to defrag it. However...

I just used the folder sync function of TI to move a few hundred video files from one drive to another, it worked as expected except that when checking the target drive after completion, it was highly fragmented, and it looks as though it is going to take many hours for defragging. I only used...