Defragging pc

swampydrill · 02-12-2009, 12:08 PM

I have tried a couple of times to defrag the main pc, it has a 200gb hard drive and gets as far as 51% complete when it races ahead and says that it is complete, on the defragging scale it shows halve the bar as blue and the other halve white. I have a new 1 tb maxtor hard drive coming and am planning to remove all the music, videos and photos to that. I then plan on removing everything else and re-installing windows xp. If i wipe everything off, will it reformat the hard drive in the process or will that have to be done seperately.

**simpswr** · 02-12-2009, 12:29 PM

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Originally Posted by swampydrill

I have tried a couple of times to defrag the main pc, it has a 200gb hard drive and gets as far as 51% complete when it races ahead and says that it is complete, on the defragging scale it shows halve the bar as blue and the other halve white.

That's normal . . as long as there is no red you are fine.

I have a new 1 tb maxtor hard drive coming and am planning to remove all the music, videos and photos to that. I then plan on removing everything else and re-installing windows xp. If i wipe everything off, will it reformat the hard drive in the process or will that have to be done seperately.

You format the drive early in the installation process. This is a good guide to reinstalling XP . . you might want to print it for reference during the install.

http://www.techsupportforum.com/cont...icles/158.html

I like to gather all the drivers prior to reinstalling , , copy to CD or flash drive

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swampydrill Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 44 OS: xp	Defragging pc I have tried a couple of times to defrag the main pc, it has a 200gb hard drive and gets as far as 51% complete when it races ahead and says that it is complete, on the defragging scale it shows halve the bar as blue and the other halve white. I have a new 1 tb maxtor hard drive coming and am planning to remove all the music, videos and photos to that. I then plan on removing everything else and re-installing windows xp. If i wipe everything off, will it reformat the hard drive in the process or will that have to be done seperately.