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Windows 8 - How To Defragment Your Hard Drive

The Disk Defragmenter feature has been renamed as "Optimize Drives" under Windows. To defragment your hard drive under Windows 8.

How To Defragment Hard Drive

Click on the Charms Bar > Optimize Drives. Next, the Optimize Drives dialog shall open, displaying the list of drives.

Then, select the drive of your choice (Note that: the Current status field will give you the % fragmented) and click on Optimize.

The defragmentation process will start.

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