Using Disk Tune To Defragment Or Consolidate A Disk - McAfee OFFICE 3.1 User Manual

Using Disk Tune to defragment or consolidate a disk

After you specify one or more drives to tune and click Next >, Disk Tune
analyzes the drive to determine the most suitable levels of optimization. Once
the analysis is complete, depending upon the degree of fragmentation, Disk
Tune recommends one of four methods:
• Reorder and Unfragment–defragments your files and arranges them on
the hard disk according to all the criteria specified in the Advanced
options.
• Full Unfragment–defragments your files and writes them to the hard disk
so that all free space is grouped separately from used space, without regard
to the File Placement criteria specified in the Defragmentation Options
dialog box (click the Advanced button).
• Quick Unfragment–defragments your fragmented files and rewrites these
to the disk without rearranging other files, and without regard to the File
Placement criteria. Free space remains fragmented.
• Consolidate Free Space–moves files and file segments to the beginning of
the disk without regard to the File Placement criteria, so that all free space
appears at the end. Files remain fragmented.
Disk Tune displays a map of your hard drive with blocks that are color coded
by status. You can watch the map change as Disk Tune analyzes the disk, and
you can customize the colors codes and click a block in the hard drive map to
identify its contents.
Click a Legend
Color box to
display the
Color dialog box
where you can
select a different
color for that item
After analyzing
your drive,
Disk Tune
recommends
an optimization
method; you can
select a different
method if you
prefer
Figure 4-10. Disk Tune hard disk map
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Click a block in
the Hard Disk
Map to identify
its contents
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