MindTap Computing, 1 term (6 months) Printed Access Card for Vermaat/Sebok/Freund/Campbell Frydenberg's Discovering Computers 2018 (MindTap Course List)

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ISBN: 9781337285193

Author: Vermaat, Misty E.; Sebok, Susan L.; Freund, Steven M.; Campbell, Jennifer T.; Frydenberg, Mark

Publisher: Cengage Learning

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Fragmented disk:

The Operating system always tries to place the information on the disk that are next to each other but it is not always promising.

When the information of the file is scattered through two or more non- continuous sectors, then the file is said to be fragmented.

The fragmented disk contains many files stored in non- continuous sectors...

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Solution Summary: The author explains that fragmentation affects the system's performance and slows down the reading and accessing speeds of the hard disk.

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