To improve the read and write performance of your hard drives, it’s been suggested that you tune up your file system by moving pieces of files into continuous sections. What utility best fits this description?
A) chkdsk
B) format
C) defrag
D) cleanmgr
The answer: C) defrag
The defragmentation process is designed to gather together scattered pieces of files and reconstruct them into single contiguous chunks. Because the pieces are now located together, the reading and writing of content is faster than having the hard drive look in many different places to put the pieces together.
The incorrect answers:
A) chkdsk
The checkdisk program checks file integrity and checks for physical drive errors, but it doesn’t move any files on the drive.
B) format
Before a drive can be used, a partition must be formatted with a file system. The format command prepares a disk and removes any previous data across an entire disk.
D) cleanmgr
The Windows disk cleanup utility removes temporary and unnecessary files such as the recycle bin, cached internet files, and system memory dump files.
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