XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.

Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.

Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

On Feb 27, 9:07 am, Bill Watt <nobw...@ptd.net> wrote:
> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>
> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>
> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt
> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

XP defrag is slow with FAT32. It is very much faster with NTFS.

You must have a problem - my Segrave External Hard drive, which cost $155
from PC World UK, is FAT32 formatted, has a capacity of 298GB of which 161GB
(54%) is free space. Defragmenting it takes a few minutes longer than the
hard drive on my PC. If you defrag regularly it should only take a few
minutes, however, if not it could take half an hour or more. - Andrew

"Bill Watt" wrote:

>
> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>
> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>
> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt
> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
>
>
>

Defrag analyzed it and said it did not need a defrag. I ran it
anyway and after a half hour it was only to 9 %.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
___________________________________________________

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:29:18 -0800, Andrew
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>You must have a problem - my Segrave External Hard drive, which cost $155
>from PC World UK, is FAT32 formatted, has a capacity of 298GB of which 161GB
>(54%) is free space. Defragmenting it takes a few minutes longer than the
>hard drive on my PC. If you defrag regularly it should only take a few
>minutes, however, if not it could take half an hour or more. - Andrew
>
>"Bill Watt" wrote:
>
>>
>> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>>
>> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>>
>> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bill Watt
>> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
>>
>>
>>

On 26 Feb 2007 20:40:49 -0800, "witan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>On Feb 27, 9:07 am, Bill Watt <nobw...@ptd.net> wrote:
>> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>>
>> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>>
>> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bill Watt
>> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
>
>XP defrag is slow with FAT32. It is very much faster with NTFS.

As long as it's formatted FAT32 can I use the Defrag from ME, It's
fast on a Win9x system.?

Regards,

Bill Watt
Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
____________________________________________________

Bill

Did you run Disk CleanUp before trying running Disk Defragmenter?

Can you post a copy of the Disk Defragmenter Report?

--

Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Bill Watt wrote:
> Defrag analyzed it and said it did not need a defrag. I ran it
> anyway and after a half hour it was only to 9 %.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt
> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information
> http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
> ___________________________________________________
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:29:18 -0800, Andrew
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> You must have a problem - my Segrave External Hard drive, which
>> cost $155 from PC World UK, is FAT32 formatted, has a capacity
>> of 298GB of which 161GB (54%) is free space. Defragmenting it
>> takes a few minutes longer than the hard drive on my PC. If you
>> defrag regularly it should only take a few minutes, however, if
>> not it could take half an hour or more. - Andrew
>>
>> "Bill Watt" wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>>>
>>> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive
>>> C:.
>>>
>>> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Bill Watt
>>> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information
>>> http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

On Feb 27, 3:07 pm, Bill Watt <nobw...@ptd.net> wrote:
> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>
> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>
> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>

Consider PerfectDisk if you must defrag, at www.perfectdisk.com

or Diskeeper at www.diskeeper.com

Defragging is possibly overrated in its importance, but everyone to
his own needs.

On Feb 27, 3:07 pm, Bill Watt <nobw...@ptd.net> wrote:
> XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>
> Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>
> Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt
> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/

Why still FAT32? Go to NTFS. It is faster, more reliable, and it
journals.

Look in Device Manager at your Primary IDE channel Properties, and see
if it is set to run DMA mode, and if in fact it is running DMA mode. If
it is not set to DMA, set it, if it has reverted to PIO due to errors.
Uninstall the channel and reinstall it and set to use DMA.

Bill Watt wrote:

> Defrag analyzed it and said it did not need a defrag. I ran it
> anyway and after a half hour it was only to 9 %.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill Watt
> Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
> ___________________________________________________
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:29:18 -0800, Andrew
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>You must have a problem - my Segrave External Hard drive, which cost $155
>
>>from PC World UK, is FAT32 formatted, has a capacity of 298GB of which 161GB
>
>>(54%) is free space. Defragmenting it takes a few minutes longer than the
>>hard drive on my PC. If you defrag regularly it should only take a few
>>minutes, however, if not it could take half an hour or more. - Andrew
>>
>>"Bill Watt" wrote:
>>
>>
>>>XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>>>
>>>Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>>>
>>>Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Bill Watt
>>>Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:07:57 -0500, Bill Watt <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>XP Pro, 1.6mh Notebook, formatted Fat32.
>
>Defrag is painfully slow. Only about 10 GB on the 80 GB drive C:.
>
>Is there a better Defrag utility for XP?
>
>Regards,
>
>Bill Watt
>Win98 Computer Help & Other Information http://home.ptd.net/~bwatt/
>


If the drive is >80% full, defrag will take longer.