[Pro] Defrag right after install?
I just got a shiney new 250Gb Maxtor, which is nice :)
Its occurred to me that when I defrag my current drive, I'm still left with a lot of stripey areas at the front of the drive. I'm pretty sure that when XP installs it uses all sorts of temp files that get deleted as it goes along. This must leave behind bits of space that get written to once I get going with using the PC, so even my start position is fragged.
It struck me that it could be a good idea to do a defrag right after installing XP, so that my start position is as good as it can be, with minimum spaces at the front end.
Maybe this is well established practice, but then again maybe its a dumb idea for some really good reason?