Defrag Hard Drive

[JW]

I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2. I ran the defrag analysis on my 57G hard
drive and got a recommendation to defrag. I stopped it after 4 hours,
showing only 10% complete, so that I could do some work. Extrapolating the
first 10%, that's almost two 24 hour days to fully defrag. Does that sound
reasonable? Is the benefit worth the time required? Thanks for your
feedback.

 

[Jerry]

That depends. If you've never defragged your hard drive it could take as
long as it has because the defrag is cleaning up the mess. If you've
periodically defragged then the time could be shorter. So, which is it?
Never or periodically? But, you're right, the time does seem excessive.

 

[JS]

Time seems way too long, it could be your drive has dropped back to PIO mode
and is no longer running at Ultra DMA speeds.
Also the amount of remaining "Free space" could be low, how much free space
is available?

Download HD Tune, provides drive mode PIO/DMA info (click on the 'Info' tab)
and has an option to test your drive.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Also SpeedFan has an online analysis feature for hard drives.
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

JS

 

[Justin Thyme]

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I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2. I ran the defrag analysis on my 57G hard
drive and got a recommendation to defrag. I stopped it after 4 hours,
showing only 10% complete, so that I could do some work. Extrapolating the
first 10%, that's almost two 24 hour days to fully defrag. Does that sound
reasonable? Is the benefit worth the time required? Thanks for your
feedback.

On the subject of defragmentation, the folks who provide the excellent
CrapCleaner program (CCleaner) also offer a defragmenter, "Defraggler." Has
anyone tried it?

Ken Bland

 

[Justin Thyme]

But there is no comment at the bottom. Why? Because you inserted the
sigdash line at the top so everything afterward was part of your
signature. The sigdash delimiter ends the body of your post.

I understand.

Trying once more.

On the subject of defragmentation, the folks who provide the excellent
CrapCleaner program (CCleaner) also offer a defragmenter, "Defraggler." Has
anyone tried it?

Ken Bland

 

[Gerry]

JW

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to
Empty your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also select
Start, All Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More
Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore
point. Now try running Disk Defragmenter.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Stourport, England
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[Xandros]

I understand.

Trying once more.

On the subject of defragmentation, the folks who provide the excellent
CrapCleaner program (CCleaner) also offer a defragmenter, "Defraggler."
Has
anyone tried it?

Ken Bland

check here http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showforum=19

 

[jimbo571]

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Yes ; it works just like any other .

 

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[doodle]

Maybe you dont have enough free space? Did you run a diskcleanup befor
the defrag? The built in tool does take very long if you are defraggin
for the first time. You could try one of the third party tools tha
complete the task faster. Some defrag even with much less than th
minimum free space requirement.

 

[Twayne]

Maybe you dont have enough free space? Did you run a diskcleanup

before the defrag? The built in tool does take very long if you are
defragging for the first time. You could try one of the third party
tools that complete the task faster. Some defrag even with much less
than the minimum free space requirement.

Disk Cleanup also compresses seldom used files for when you're trying to
eek out the last available bit on the drive. But ANYTHING is temporary
in that way; the right answer is a larger hard drive.