Smart Defrag: How to defragment your hard drive

HOW DO I FORMAT AND DEFRAGMENT MY HARD DRIVE?

June 05, 2022 at 6:00 p.m

By defragmenting your hard drive with Smart Defrag, you will speed up your storage and improve its performance. We show how it works.

Smart Defrag: How to defragment your hard drive

Alternative: in-house defragmentation tool

With the in-house defragmentation tool from Windows, you unfortunately have to do without many comfort functions that make your work easier when formatting and deleting data. Smart Defrag offers significantly more options to personalize the defragmentation and adapt it to your needs.

Securely erase files & disks

All data should be thoroughly erased from data carriers before sale or disposal. Simply formatting the hard drive or deleting individual files is not enough here. If you really want to be on the safe side, you can use special tools for consistent data destruction.

In addition, the software uses intelligent technology that automatically sorts data according to how often it is used for a further speed boost. Smart Defrag not only copes with conventional HDD hard drives, but also supports the modern Solid State Drive (SSD) system. The manufacturer promises maximum security for your data while it is being rearranged.

In the following steps we will show you how to start a complete defragmentation of your hard disks with Smart Defrag in order to restore the optimal reading and writing speed.

Install Smart Defrag

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Have you downloaded Smart Defrag on your PC, start the installation process by clicking on the program icon. First select “Accept and Install”.
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In the next step, make sure that you click on “Install” to install additional software that is not required for defragmentation with Smart Defrag. If you don’t want that, uncheck the box and click “Skip”.

Personalize defragmentation

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For HDD drives, you can now activate additional options on the main screen of the software. You can choose among other things the mentioned boot time compression. You can also include a hard drive cleanup.
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The arrow next to the “Smart Optimize” button takes you to different sections of the defragmentation, which you can run individually.
For more options, click the menu in the top left corner, then click Settings. Here you can, among other things, define a schedule and the system components for the hard disk cleanup.

Start intelligent defragmentation

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To start a full defragmentation, you must first mark the desired drives with a tick and then click on “Smart Optimization”. After the process has been completed, you end the whole thing with “Finish”. For more information, click View Report.

If you prefer to use Windows 10’s own defragmentation tool instead, you can follow the steps in the linked instructions. The advantage here: You do not have to download an external tool.