A few thoughts here.
First, I don't see anyone in the thread saying you can't defragment an
external drive. Someone does claim that you can't defragment a solid
state drive (SSD), but this is not correct either.
You can defragment an SSD drive, but there's really no point in doing so
since all of the data is random access. In fact, by defragmenting your
SSD drive, you're just putting unnecessary wear and tare on the drive.
IMHO, defragmenting a traditional rotary drive is also mostly
unnecessary with modern file systems, but there are still opinions out
there that it's worth doing.
Compressing a drive doesn't make it harder for JAWS to access the drive.
This is all handled by Windows. It is true that it will take longer to
access a compressed drive, since the data will have to be uncompressed
but you have to trade off access time with space used. Note that if most
of the data is music, you won't get much by compressing it, since the
data is already pretty dense.
I don't think defragmenting or compressing will address the original
problem. It may be that the file systm is corrupted. I'd suggest running
chkdsk /x /f on the drive as described in the article
https://support.soluto.com/entries/20311361-How-to-perform-a-Disk-Check-and-File-System-Checker-
On 10/09/2013 11:17 AM, ted chittenden wrote:
> Hi to all.
>
> I didn't respond to this inquiry because I didn't know anything about compressing a hard drive except that it (supposedly) makes it more difficult for JAWS to access information in the drive once it's compressed.
>
> But in terms of defragmentation, you most certainly *can* defrag your regular and your external (assuming it's plugged into your computer) hard drives from Windows 7. In the traditional Desktop mode, you click on "My Computer" and then (assuming you have set up your files as list views) you can down arrow to whatever drive is listed, press the properties or right mouse key, press shift+tab once, arrow to the right once, then tab through the entries until you reach "Defragment Disk". Press "Enter" there and then "Enter" again on the "Defragment" button.
>
> And I'm absolutely sure that "My Computer" can also be reached from the search box noted by Albert in his email as well.
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> ---- Ana G <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> According to _windows 7 for Dummies_, you can not defrag a solid state
> drive, like a flash drive. I don't know if this includes external hard
> drives.
>
> If you go into the defrag screen by typing "defrag" in the search box or
> by using the control panel, you can tab to a combo box that lists your
> drives. My guess is that, if you can defrag a hard drive, you would do
> it by choosing it in that combo box.
>
> about your problem, though, it sounds like something got synced
> somewhere. I find itunes confusing. It sometimes tells me I have
> recordings I've removed from the computer, and it doesn't always see
> other recordings I do have even when I import them. Maybe an iTunes guru
> can explain. My own impulse would be to erase things from the hard drive
> or reformat it.
>
> On 10/8/2013 4:46 PM, Sherry Wells wrote:
>> I have an external hard drive (F) I use with ITunes. For at least a
>> year, all I’ve done is use ITunes to download podcasts. I move the
>> podcasts to my Stream once downloaded so these are not kep on the F
>> drive. I know I did not accidentally copy instead of move because
>> these podcasts no longer show up when I open ITunes. Now suddenly my
>> F drive is full and I get errors saying I cannot download any more
>> podcasts. Do I need to compress this drive? Defrag it? Both? If so,
>> how do I find how to do this in Windows 7. I tried right clicking on
>> the drive but of course it couldn’t be that easy. Any advice would be
>> greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>> Regards,
>> Sherry Wells
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