5 Freakin' Hours!

[AznMaverick]

That is to defrag my hard drive. i have a 40 gig maxtor 7200 rpm running dma/66, it's 1/2 full btw, haven't defragged in a month. I was just wondering how long, on average, does it take for you guyz to defrag?

 

[TuffGuy]

use norton speed disk. it's MUCH faster.

 

[crab]

Was your POS running windows 2000 with NTFS?

 

[JohnnyKnoxville]

Ouch 5 hours.
I defrag every few weeks or so ,my video partition even more.Takes about 20 minutes??? never really timed it

 

[Looney]

I defrag about once a week too. Takes about 5 mins for 10gigs, but my drive are never fragmented that much.

 

[toph99]

my 25gb partition with 70% fragmented took an hour and 10 minutes to defrag with norton speed disk

 

[AznMaverick]

<< Was your POS running windows 2000 with NTFS? >>



Nope, i'm running both win2k server and win98 on FAT32...i know it's stupid but i want to be able to see all my files using both OS's

 

[SoyBoy004]

degrag? whats that? all i know to do when my computer slows is format and start again. =)

 

[bacillus]

<< my 25gb partition with 70% fragmented took an hour and 10 minutes to defrag with norton speed disk >>


toph99, over what length of time did that level of fragmentation build up??

 

[pen^2]

second what tuffguy said. not only speedisk completes the defragmentation sessions in less than a fraction of what Intel one does, it feel faster after defraggin with speedisk.