Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Win 7: disk management and defrag

Just received my new Fujitsu Lifebook S series notebook with Intel core i7 with Nvidia Geforce 310M, 4 Gig DDR3 1066Mhz RAM, running on win7 32 bit enterprise OS.

It comes in 2 partition: 300 Gig C: drive and 200 Gig D: drive.

I have the habit of starting the machine with a good long term maintenance strategy, this time I did the following:

Adjust disk partitions:

I removed D: drive, shrinked C: drive to about 150 Gig, then create a new 100 Gig D: drive followed by 250 Gig E: drive. C: drive for more permanent programs, D: drive for adhoc programs that I play around, E: drive for data.

Start > Computer > (Right click) Manage

Storage > Disk Management

Right click on any of the disk:

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Turn on the defragmentation program:

Locate the defragmentation program by typing into the search box: defrag

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Click on configure schedule

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Set the weekly schedule for a suitable timing

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That’s it.

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