You can DEFRAGMENT the disk drives by some methods below:

1. Defragmentation by the use of Local Disk’s properties.
2. OPEN ‘My Computer’ from the start menu or from the desktop.
3. 3) Right-click on the disk drive to which you want to run the defragmentation and click the properties of that drive.Then a new page will open, click on the ‘Tools’. You will see defragment option on that page.
4. Click on the ‘Defragment Now’. And the process can be run.
5.  Defragmentation by the use of Computer Management MMC
6. Open the ‘Run’ program and TYPE ‘compmgmt.msc’ and hit enter, then computer management will be there.
7. Click on the ‘Disk Defragmenter’.
8. Click on the volume to which you want run the defragmentation process, after selecting click the ‘Defragment’.
9. Defragmentation by the use of Defragmenter MMC
10. Start the ‘Disk Defragmenter MMC’ (Dfrg.msc).
11. Select the drive to which you want to run the defragmentation and then click on ‘Defragment’.

Disk Defragmenter MMC version included in the Windows XP comes with some limitations:

• You will be able to defragment only the local disk drive volumes.
• You will not be able to defragment more than one disk drive volume at a time.
• You will not be able to defragment one disk drive volume when scanning another.
• You will not be able to make a schedule defragmentation. In case you NEED to make a schedule disk defragmentation then use ‘Defrag.exe’ command line tool. This is able to process only one MMC snap-in at a time.
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You can defragment the disk drives by some methods below:

Disk Defragmenter MMC version included in the Windows XP comes with some limitations: