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| Thread ID: 36030 | 2003-07-29 04:01:00 | ScanDisc on an 80 GB drive took me 15 hours! | ssssss (2100) | Press F1 |
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| 163599 | 2003-07-29 04:01:00 | The 80 GB drive is a second slave drive that I have installed I have Windows Me. Is it normal for it to take so long, when using the THOROUGH option? And how often should one do it? And does one usually use the STANDARD option which is quite quick? |
ssssss (2100) | ||
| 163600 | 2003-07-29 05:52:00 | Yep sounds about right to me. The Thorough scan disk scans the entire surface of the disk (or so it says) to look for damaged sectors and clusters so yes it does take quite a while 15 hours seems a little long but all kinds of things can influence that like cpu, ram and speed of the hard drive eg 5400 rpm or 7200 . The standard scan only checks files and folder structures so it is much quicker. |
Odin (227) | ||
| 163601 | 2003-07-29 06:01:00 | I would only routinely use the standard scandisc. I think this is normal practice especially prior to defragging | veterannz (960) | ||
| 163602 | 2003-07-29 06:19:00 | On my 60 GB HDD it took only 8hours (Thorough), but 15hours for 80GB that sounds like too much!?! | vk_dre (195) | ||
| 163603 | 2003-07-29 07:30:00 | If you disable all other programs that are running at the same time that would help. | Rod ger (316) | ||
| 163604 | 2003-07-29 09:19:00 | Suggest that you install a programme called "crackup". Google will find it for you. It will tell you IF you need to do anything like Defrag etc. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
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