more time to scandisk a fragmented drive ?

[rahulkothari]

does it take more time to scandisk a fragmented drive ?

[mjc]

Well let's see......

Fragmented drives will have the data scattered everywhere......so depending on what you have scandisk set to check.....maybe. :D

(yeah, I know real helpful, ...but, I never really bothered to check!)

Seriously, I would think that it would make a noticeable difference if the drive were badly fragmented, especially if you have any of the advanced options like checking for bad dates/times checked.......but I wouldn't think a drive in the less than 10% fragmented range would be all that noticeable.......and of course a surface test (or thorough) will take significantly longer.

[rahulkothari]

thanks for replying, mjc.

Well, a bit of what you said went over my head :( .... maybe, i should brushup the basics i learnt last year in college... will research over it. i am pretty confused now :rolleyes: and cant get my grey cells working as its time for them to sleep :D zzzzZZZZZ ... 12:54 am here and morover have to wake up pretty early tommorow , i hate morning lectures :mad: