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How can you guys defrag that fast?

R

rc5

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It takes 4 hours on my 27GB maxtor to finish 5% with Norton speeddisk.

As a matter of fact, I never defrag because of the time it taking.
 


<< As a matter of fact, I never defrag because of the time it taking. >>



This might be why it takes so long, since your drive is so fragmented.

What speed is your CPU, that makes a difference as well.
 
SpeedDisk takes just an hour on my 45 GB IBM drive under W2K. Let defrag run overnite if it takes that long.
 
Because speeddisk will arrange things in a way IT wants them to be arranged, and logically it might be better, but the OS doesn't like that. You'll be worse off after &quot;optimizing&quot; than beforehand.

Get diskeeper or O&amp;O software's programs. Much better.
 
I know that if you leave the sort programs to make them run faster option off, then it goes quicker, but I allways leave it on.. it would be like a 1/2 defrag.. My 44 gig maxtor just took like 5 hours to defrag, and it wasn't that badly fragmented. I'm on a p-3 667 w/96 mb of ram. When I had my 36.8 gig maxtor HDD, I hadn't defragged it ever, and it was about 5 months since I had installed the OS, and I burn cd's and stuff, so I have VERY large files moving around all the time.. I think it took like 20 hours to defrag.. it was pretty bad...(think my hdd was pretty full to.. like 1 free gig)
 
kvizbar has it right you must let it finish a whole defrag then it wont take so long after that. Assuming you defrag at least once a week. As far as Norton goes i use it to move my swap file then un install it and use windows defrag seems to work better. Disk keeper is better suited for servers as it seperates all the files to different sectors on the hard drive. If you are using a via 686 chipset motherboard and soundblaster live card it may screwup you data real bad and your drive will become fragmented everyday. If so install the latest via 4in1 its 4.32 i believe it fixes this problem. At least on mine it did.
 


<< It takes 4 hours on my 27GB maxtor to finish 5% with Norton speeddisk. >>


Sounds like something's running in the background.
 
I ran Norton Speeddisk one time on my 40GB maxtor filled with about 22 GB of bootlegs (MP3, SHN) and it totally corrupted everything on that drive. Songs were all mixed, starting and stopping within other songs. Speed disk seems to only focus on the programs and data that you use the most and then places them towards the front of the drive. I've not run the program on that drive since.

Ryan
 
I started a Scandisk right after a format at 11 pm and it was still going at 8 am.

I have a 40 gig Maxtor 7200 RPM and a 1 gig Tbird

How can I shave that and my defrag time down?
 
Joyride,

Watch your scandisk and see if it is constantly going back to zero and restarting it's scan. If that is happening, then you have some process running in the background that is updating the disk, and resetting the dirty bit, which causes scandisk to restart from the beginning. Someone else mentioned running scandisk in safe mode. Or, if you are running Win9x/ME, do a C-A-D, and kill everything non-essential, then try running scandisk and/or speeddisk.
 
Use &quot;End It All&quot;. Shuts down all unecessary programs . Things run faster, like defrag and good to use for games as well. Available at Zdnet.com.

Catcando
 
Hey mgpaulus,

I ran my scandisk the second I finished a full format.

So there can't be anything running

next time I do it i'll try it in safe mode.
 
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