It then happens that a block is not large enough to contain a file that needs to be written on the hard drive. When the hard drive is new, files can be written in a single block on the drive, but once files get deleted regularly, blocks of different sizes for write operations appear. Think of the hard drive as a list of blocks that you can fill with data. In the world of Windows they are not, at least not all of the time. In a perfect world, files would be written contiguously on the hard drive. This can be for instance the case on a drive that is used to save P2P files. Defragmenting the hard drives of your computer is important on PC systems where programs are installed and uninstalled frequently, or where other read and write operations of files are handled regularly.
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