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Norton System Works-Speed Disk is Very-very slow.Why?Any Ideas?

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I have win98/winXP dual boot system.Disk(20 GB) has three partitions.C(5GB)-win98 and related programs.D(8GB)-winXP and related programs.E(6GB)-miscellanious files and data.

I have tried dfragging my C/E drives using Norton utilities-2000's Speed Disk (NU-2000 is installed on C drive)and it runs very fast.Almost 4-5 times faster than windows defragging utility.

But when I tried Norton System Works-2003's Speed Disk utility for defragging my D drive(NSW-2003 is installed on D drive) it runs very-very slow.It seems even slower than the winXP's defragging utility.

Isn't Norton's Speed Disk expected to be much faster than Windows' defragging utility?If so why it runs so very slowly on my system? Any Answers?

Please Help.
 
What sort of file systems are in use? Have you run it ever before? Sometimes the first defrag can be slow, because WinXP does a lot more optimizing of file locations. Are other applications running in the background?
 
I wouldn't use SpeedDisk on XP. It doesn't use XP's layout.ini file for defragging so most of it's changes will be undone by XP. And XP knows what it's doing, so this is bad. PerfectDisk or Diskeeper are better IMO.
 
I'll be nice and post this link using normal Reply. 🙂

SpeedDisk actually uses WinXP's own defragging API, so SpeedDisk is essentially just a graphically enhanced WinXP Defrag. It doesn't do any of the stuff that people expect SpeedDisk to do, only moves some of the files and doesn't move the swap file or master file table, so that it can be "Microsoft approved" defragging. Kind of negates any reason to even install it. I don't know about it ignoring the layout.ini file, since that would be an immediate flag to make Microsoft not give it the Designed for Windows XP logo.
 
actually it does, but the only thing that it does extra is move system files and page file. i noticed regular defrag doesnt touch those and havent seen an option for it to do so ever i think, but the norton one does.
 
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