How to defrag your hd the manual way

[Julian]

If you know french:
http://www.waithai.com/datadoctor/defrag1.htm

If you don't, how about a silly automatic translation:
http://216.239.39.120/translate_c?hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&langpair=fr%7Cen&u=http://www.waithai.com/datadoctor/defrag1.htm&prev=/language_tools

[DooMBoy]

Heh, that was quite funny.

[Darkstalker]

Intéressant, but does it really works, why and how can a speaker do all this ?

Edit: Just got the joke :P

[Julian]

Darkstalker said:
why and how can a speaker do all this ?

Basic magnetic properties I guess.

Darkstalker said:
Edit: Just got the joke :P

Edit: err... what joke? :P

[Darkstalker]

Well I don't think it's true since :

Site says :
Vous ne pouvez nous blâmer toutes les choses stupides qui risquent d'arriver à votre Pc (mais pas mal d'entre elles).

Toutes les choses que vous pouvez lire et voir sur Internet ne sont pas forcément bonnes pour votre PC.

Pour nos visiteurs américains : DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!

Why would they say to americans to not try this ? I believe it's because they don't speak French (or not much) and if they start doing it and scraps their HD, I don't think they would be pretty happy. That's why they put the warning. And they say not to trust everything that we see on the internet, so I doubt that it's true.

[Amaster]

Uh, its completely 100% untrue (for those who may be wondering). First off, defragmenting means aligning the data on the harddrive contiguosly. Second, unlesss im mistaken, exposing the HD disks would ruin them permanently.

[Fletcher`]

Magnets + Computers = Death. (equations, the only way to answer)

[Bloodshedder]

That is definitively positively undeniably retarded.

[Chopkinsca]

finger prints are really hard to get off a hard drive disc. I took apart an old one from 1987 or something. it was hard without the proper screwdriver (read: butterknife).
I would imagine some stupid people actually have tried to do this.. maybe..

[Reisal]

Bloodshedder said:

That is definitively positively undeniably retarded.

I second that, fiddling with the insides of the HDD would void the warrenty wouldn't it?

[Chopkinsca]

Mr. Chris said:

I second that, fiddling with the insides of the HDD would void the warrenty wouldn't it?

I would imagine even trying to open it would..

[Amaster]

Theyre not hermetically sealed for no reason.

[Sephiroth]

if u try this u are stupid!
1 opening a hard drive kills it automaticly.
2 touching a platter would totaly kill it. the heads are so close to the platter that even the grease from finger tips gets in the way.
3 a magnet would wipe it clean.

4 this is a joke site, duh

[læmænt]

Why would you defrag a hard drive?

[stphrz]

lament said:

Why would you defrag a hard drive?

Because you fragged it?

[DOOM Anomaly]

I actually got up to the part with the defragmetor Dee-Lee, but couldn't do more cause I dont have the Defragmetor Dee-Lee, Oh well. :D

[Fletcher`]

DOOM Anomaly said:

I actually got up to the part with the defragmetor Dee-Lee, but couldn't do more cause I dont have the Defragmetor Dee-Lee, Oh well. :D

Windows comes with Defrag.exe, check your windows folder.

[Chopkinsca]

what's next?
a step by step guide on how to take apart your monitor and make it as if it was new by doing various things such as washing it?

I don't know..

[DOOM Anomaly]

ravage said:

Windows comes with Defrag.exe, check your windows folder.

I know that...I was talking about , Silly pants. :P
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[fraggle]

I dont know about defrag, but my dad can and has 'scandisked' hard drives in the past, rebuilding filesystems by hand with a hexeditor.