On Jul 2, 2004, at 7:44 AM, verduron wrote: > Thank you all. I am not doing anything professional. I will opt, after > reading everything you sent, not to de-fragment and will make certain > my hard drive has the famous 20% space kept in store. I'm sure you'll be fine. If someone does feel the need to defrag, I think the best way (assuming one has the means) is to Carbon Copy the entire volume over to another disk and then back again. Daniel