Laptop defrag takes forever....it seems

[Ron P]

The laptop has Windows XP SP2 and the system partition (c) 40MB takes what
seems forever to defrag and there really isn't that much on it and the disk
is well under half full. The file system is Fat 32 and I am wondering if
converting it to NTFS would help this situation or is it just that laptops
take a long time to defrag?

The system is an Acer Aspire 5000

 

[R. McCarty]

Before starting a Defrag, it's always best to do a Read-Only Chkdsk
on the volume. You wouldn't want to do a defrag on a disk that has
any inconsistencies on it.
Click Start, Run (Type) Cmd [Enter]

Chkdsk C:

If the volume is marked "Dirty" you'll need to queue up a boot time
Chkdsk to attempt repair.

Chkdsk C: /F

The system will respond that the volume can't be locked and would you
like to perform the Chkdsk at the next boot. Answer Y
*Note: In the course of running Chkdsk in Repair mode it CAN and
sometimes does remove content. Don't do a Chkdsk with /R or /F
unless you've got the data on the volume backed up.

 

[Alias]

The laptop has Windows XP SP2 and the system partition (c) 40MB takes
what seems forever to defrag and there really isn't that much on it and
the disk is well under half full. The file system is Fat 32 and I am
wondering if converting it to NTFS would help this situation or is it
just that laptops take a long time to defrag?

The system is an Acer Aspire 5000

NTFS would be much quicker.

Alias

 

[Ron P]

NTFS would be much quicker.

Alias

That is what I have been thinking. I just might get to that this weekend.
Thanks

 

[Ron P]

Before starting a Defrag, it's always best to do a Read-Only Chkdsk
on the volume. You wouldn't want to do a defrag on a disk that has
any inconsistencies on it.
Click Start, Run (Type) Cmd [Enter]

Chkdsk C:

If the volume is marked "Dirty" you'll need to queue up a boot time
Chkdsk to attempt repair.

Chkdsk C: /F

The system will respond that the volume can't be locked and would you
like to perform the Chkdsk at the next boot. Answer Y
*Note: In the course of running Chkdsk in Repair mode it CAN and
sometimes does remove content. Don't do a Chkdsk with /R or /F
unless you've got the data on the volume backed up.

The laptop has Windows XP SP2 and the system partition (c) 40MB takes
what seems forever to defrag and there really isn't that much on it and
the disk is well under half full. The file system is Fat 32 and I am
wondering if converting it to NTFS would help this situation or is it
just that laptops take a long time to defrag?

The system is an Acer Aspire 5000

Probably worthwhile doing.

Thanks

 

[Ron P]

The laptop has Windows XP SP2 and the system partition (c) 40MB takes what
seems forever to defrag and there really isn't that much on it and the
disk is well under half full. The file system is Fat 32 and I am wondering
if converting it to NTFS would help this situation or is it just that
laptops take a long time to defrag?

The system is an Acer Aspire 5000

Thanks to all who replied. I changed over to NTFS on all partitions and now
defrag takes about 5 minutes instead of more than 2 hours.