"If it Ain't Broke Don't Fix It" Poses a Potentially Catastrophic Danger for Computers

When Lance offered up his quip chances are he knew little about the impending rise of the computer age. Had he known he may have developed a more proactive approach, or at least made an exception, to protecting a computer's hard drive from the damage of fragmentation.

While the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality may work in some areas of political policy, it poses a potentially catastrophic danger for those who own computers.

This is due in large part to fragmentation and its methodical progression from an inconvenience to the eventual cause of a computer crashing. By the time the end result occurs it's too late to do anything and you're left with a "broke" computer and no way to "fix it."

Most people don't recognize the dangers of fragmentation because they know very little about the problem, and what to look for in diagnosing their computer's illness. Fragmentation is a computer