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Why did defragmenting C drive increase my free disk space by 10 GB?
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Mar 15, 202632402 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I used Defraggler to defragment free space on my 100 GB C:\ drive which was 85 GB full. After defragmentation, the drive showed only 75 GB full. How did 10 GB of free space magically appear? Did I lose any data? I did a disk cleanup before defragmenting and my trash was only about 11 MB, so it can'…
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Each fragment has to be tracked somewhere. That takes storage space (within the File system's plumbing, not stuff you're meant to directly access). An example: Suppose you have a single file with 1000 fragments. Thus your file is stored through a co…
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