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Now for the bright side...you should be aware first of all that ALL drives
develop fragmentation as a natural course of their usage. It is simply the
price you pay for the luxury of not needing a million floppy disks to store
your data. (By the way, floppy disks get fragmented the exact same way, it's
just that with only 360K to move around in, there is not really the concern
there is when talking about heads moving around tens of millions of bytes as
in a hard drive).
Also, there are a myriad of programs (commercial, shareware and freeware)
that will easily allow you to view your hard disk "map", (give you a visual
representation of the fragmentation status of your drive) and to cure disk
fragmentation by performing a defragmentation. A defragmentation is a process
whereby all fragmented sectors of all files are lifted from their current
position and re-written onto contiguous sectors.
Thus, after running a defragmentation program, you should expect your disk
map to look like the following...