Showing posts with label defragment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label defragment. Show all posts

Thursday, 25 June 2009

Why does Windows create fragmented files by default?

This is wierd. My external drive got lots of free space and is completely defragmented:



Now, I'm backing up my VMware virtual machines, by copying the VMware files to the external drive. These are a bunch of 2GB files which should fit without any problem in the free space of the drive. But for some reason, these files get fragmented:



And it's not just two three fragments, it's 10.000+ fragments!



Why?