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About Your Hard Disk Drive Partition

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VAIO Computer User Guide About Your Hard Disk Drive Partition To improve the performance of Sony audio and video software applications, the hard disk drive on your computer has been formatted with two partitions, C and D. Some Sony software applications save files to the D partition. This prevents large video captures from consuming the available space on your C partition. To maintain optimum system performance, you should defragment your computer's D partition regularly. Defragmenting your hard disk drive If you encounter frame dropping while recording digital video onto your hard disk drive, defragmentation may be necessary. 1 Deactivate your screen saver and close other open applications, if applicable. 2 Click Start in the Windows taskbar and select All Programs. 3 Point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then select Disk Defragmenter. The Disk Defragment dialog box appears. 4 Select Action from the menu bar and click Analyze. ✍ It may take a long time to complete the defragmenting process, depending on the data capacity and current utilization of your computer's hard disk drive(s). 8

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VAIO Computer User Guide
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About Your Hard Disk Drive Partition
To improve the performance of Sony audio and video software applications, the
hard disk drive on your computer has been formatted with two partitions, C and
D. Some Sony software applications save files to the D partition. This prevents
large video captures from consuming the available space on your C partition.
To maintain optimum system performance, you should defragment your
computer’s D partition regularly.
Defragmenting your hard disk drive
If you encounter frame dropping while recording digital video onto your hard
disk drive, defragmentation may be necessary.
1
Deactivate your screen saver and close other open applications, if applicable.
2
Click
Start
in the Windows taskbar and select
All Programs
.
3
Point to
Accessories
, point to
System Tools
, and then select
Disk
Defragmenter
.
The Disk Defragment dialog box appears.
4
Select
Action
from the menu bar and click
Analyze
.
✍
It may take a long time to complete the defragmenting process, depending on the data
capacity and current utilization of your computer’s hard disk drive(s).