re: Defrags Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 2:34 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MartinM (5126 messages posted) Indeed so - the time to load a file completelycan be very small. And a "trick" of NTFS is that it allows the application to start reading the first fragment recovered, before the rest is added. That significantly reduces the effective delay in accessing the information in the file. Only writing is delayed until the whole file is recovered. Written in response to: re: Defrags (Ricer46: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 11:30 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Defrags (Carol: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 4:13 am) re: Defrags (William Mowbray: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 4:37 am) re: Defrags (Keith Stanier: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 5:18 am) re: Defrags (Peter: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 5:57 am) re: Defrags - don't do it ! (MartinM: Tue, Oct 27, 2009, 9:21 am) re: Defrags (Carol: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 4:31 am) re: Defrags (William Mowbray: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 4:44 am) re: Defrags (Adam Bradley: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 5:35 am) re: Defrags (MartinM: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 6:04 am) re: Defrags (Ricer46: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 11:30 pm) re: Defrags (MartinM: Thu, Oct 29, 2009, 2:34 am) re: Defrags (Carol: Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 2:19 am) re: Defrags (Larry: Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 8:00 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum