Windows 2000 Pro NTFS Defrag stops

[Drydem]

When I run Windows 2000 Pro's built-in Defrag
utility on a Maxtor 60GB HD using NTFS, the
Defrag process seems to halt near the end of
the process. The task manager says the process
is still running but the black bar on the bottom
of the Defrag dialog box appears to be stuck in
one position. Is there any Windows 2000 pro
diagonistic procedures that I could use to
determine if indeed something has gone amiss?

TIA
Walter Lee

 

[Jerold Schulman]

When I run Windows 2000 Pro's built-in Defrag
utility on a Maxtor 60GB HD using NTFS, the
Defrag process seems to halt near the end of
the process. The task manager says the process
is still running but the black bar on the bottom
of the Defrag dialog box appears to be stuck in
one position. Is there any Windows 2000 pro
diagonistic procedures that I could use to
determine if indeed something has gone amiss?

TIA
Walter Lee

Have you let it run overnight?


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

 

[Drydem]

Have you let it run overnight?

yes.

I tried it again and it seems to work if
I let it run overnight. Microsoft's defrag
runs really slow!! I'm wondering if this
is normal? Is my CPU too slow? I'm using
a Intel Celeron 1.4Ghz on a Slocket/Abit
BX2 motherboard (with the latest BIOS
version ). Would it have been faster had
I used a different disk controller? The
system is using a ATA33 IDE controller.
Would more memory have helped? It has 196MB
of PC100 RAM. Or is it that the microsoft
disk utilities are just not up to snuff
and that there is a third party software
solution?

Windows 2000 Pro doesn't have
a Diskscan - but that Windows can do a
optional chkdsk during bootup - why has
this change been made? Does NTFS5 automatically
check for bad and lost sectors?

 

[Drydem]

"Microsoft's defrag runs really slow!! I'm wondering if this is normal?"

Yes, you get what you pay for

ouch. %0