The "F" drive is quite likely the recovery partition for HP.  You don't 
need to defrag it at all, and you should really leave it alone to avoid 
causing any problems if you ever do have to restore your machine to its 
original condition.  Your machine does not access it on a regular basis, 
so you should be looking elsewhere for the cause of your slowdown.

Tony Mayer


Pamela Pedersen wrote:
> Thanks Hal.  I had done that many times and tried about a dozen times 
> to defrag it with Diskeeper, all to no avail.  I bought a different 
> defrag program called Perfect Disk and it defragged it.  Now Diskeeper 
> shows that it has been defragged.  But it is a small partition and I 
> don't know how to make it bigger.  Its 1 gig in size, with only 244 mb 
> free.  I guess I just need to be sure to defrag it on a regular basis 
> just like I do the C drive.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Seabolt" 
> <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 4:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] "F" drive
>
>
>> Pam,
>> Right click on My Computer, select open from dropdown menu and you 
>> will see
>> what drive is assigned  "F"
>> When you know that you can decide how to deal with defragging it.
>> HTH,
>> Hal Seabolt
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pam Pedersen
>> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 3:28 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: [PCBUILD] "F" drive
>>
>> I have an HP Pavilion dv2125 notebook pc running Windows XP SP2 with 
>> an AMD
>> Turion 64x2, 1.6 GHz, 1 gig RAM, NVidia GeForce 6150 graphics.  It's 
>> been
>> getting slower and slower.  I have Diskeeper and it showed that the "F"
>> drive was horribly fragmented and could affect the system 
>> performance.   I
>> have tried and tried to defragment it and it still shows it is 
>> dangerously
>> fragmented, still with  425 fragmented files.  And the system 
>> performance is
>>
>> still getting worse.  I don't know what the F drive is used for or 
>> why there
>>
>> is so much in it that is fragmented.  But that's the only thing I can 
>> figure
>>
>> out that is hurting performance.  I do all the maintenance things 
>> regularly,
>>
>> but apparently they only take care of the C drive?
>>
>> What is this drive and how do I clean it up?  Any help would be 
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks, Pam
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