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bnw

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What is contiguous space on a hard disk?
« on: August 03, 2007, 05:50:45 AM »
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Deerpark



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    Re: What is contiguous space on a hard disk?
    « Reply #1 on: August 03, 2007, 05:58:23 AM »
    I assume you mean "contiguous free disk space". Hard drives are divided in to blocks of a certain size. When your operating system needs to save a file it is split up into pieces that fit into these blocks.
    The system tries to save the file to a sequence of adjacent free blocks because it's faster to find the file again if its not scattered all over the hard drive. Contiguous free disk space is a sequence of blocks large enough to hold a given file.

    If your system is giving you an error about too little contiguous free disk space you need to defrag it or possibly free up more disk space.
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    Re: What is contiguous space on a hard disk?
    « Reply #2 on: August 03, 2007, 10:43:03 AM »
    contiguous means "joined together without any gaps".