Defragmented Hard Drives

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This past number of weeks, I've been doing a lot of work with large video files from just under a gig to over a gig in size.

My heart is broke as the drives are always getting fragmented due to video files being saved and then removed or even edited changing the size of them.

When the drives are fragmented, explorer.exe starts to hug the CPU and its memory usage increases to over 400mb slowing the whole system down leaving its pretty much usless to work with.

The system runs fine until I start to access one of the defragmented drives.

Is there any other way to avoid this problem? Why does explorer.exe demand so much cpu+mem usuage?

I'd like to know how companies that work with video all the time get around this problem. I'm fed up having to defrag the hard disk.

Any help would be great.
 
Indexing was turned on for the drives and system restore was also turned on for the drives.

I have them turned off now so we shall see how things go.

Cheers for that. You learn something new everyday.
 
I've got the same bloody problem.

All important files are being transfered to another Drive on the network so I can clean out the whole system.

I'll move the Page File to another drive while I am at it.

I'm still puzzled why explorer.exe demands so much cpu+mem and I wonder if the same thing occurs when the drives are all clean/empty.

I doubt its a virus as Kaspersky and NOD32 reports a clean system.

Maybe its a corrupt file on the drive(s) that is putting windows in a frenzy which was a case a while back causing windows users to right click the file before opening it.

I've a 1Gb Dual Core system and its leaves it looking like a 386.
 
Is there a way to identify a corrupt file on disk.

I think the problem is to do with a corrupt file so is there a way to scan the drive and pick out the damaged file using some ssort of oftware etc?
 
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