How To: Defragment Your Media Card

I like to make sure all my gadgets are at their best performance. I regularly defragment and disk clean my laptop to make sure its running well in that respect. I also defragment my BlackBerry’s media card. Believe it or not, your media card can become cluttered with fragmented files depending on how often you use it and for what purpose. To defragment your media card follow the instructions below:

These instructions are intended for anyone using a PC. You must already have installed the necessary BlackBerry software onto your PC for this to work. Click here to find the right software.

Please make sure your BlackBerry’s media card settings are as shown in the picture above. You can find these settings under Options>Advanced>Media Card. Once the settings are as seen above, proceed to connect your BlackBerry to your PC via USB cable.

Once it is connected a screen should pop up asking how you would like to view the files on the media card, close this screen. Go to Start>Programs>Accessories>System Tools and select Disk Defragmenter. If you do not see this there, try using your PC’s search function to find it. Once you open it you should see the following:

In this screen shot my media card is labeled as Kingston (F:). Yours may be labeled as media card, microsdhc, etc. Once you know which drive is your media card, highlight it and select Defragment at the bottom of the window. You can select Analyze if you just want to see howfragmented your media card is without defragmenting it right away.

Once you select Defragment, it will first analyze your media card and then start defragmenting it right away. The color coding is labeled at the bottom. Once it is finished you will see the following screen:

At this point the process of the defragmenting is complete. You can either View Report or Close the window. If you decide to view the report you will see the following:

This will show you the results of defragmenting your media card in detail. That’s it! Hope this was helpful.