Hard drive Question??

[movinup]

I have a Dell notebook with a 30 gig HD. The file system is NTFS, Win XP Pro.

I have noticed that when I defrag the disk usage after shows a large open area where there is apparently no data. On a different computer using FAT 32 when I defrag, it seems to move the data to the front of the disk and I have no blank areas afterward. Is this normal for the NTFS file system or ...? I have no operational problems with either computer.

 

[cavemangrinder]

I have a Dell notebook with a 30 gig HD. The file system is NTFS, Win XP Pro.

I have noticed that when I defrag the disk usage after shows a large open area where there is apparently no data. On a different computer using FAT 32 when I defrag, it seems to move the data to the front of the disk and I have no blank areas afterward. Is this normal for the NTFS file system or ...? I have no operational problems with either computer.

Its perfectly normal. NTFS has a different file system than FAT32.

 

[movinup]

No problem, good. Thank you.