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| Thread ID: 35958 | 2003-07-26 20:12:00 | Windows XP (SP1?) defrag - does it ever finish? | argus (366) | Press F1 |
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| 163068 | 2003-07-26 20:12:00 | I run Windows XP Pro, and it has a "new-style" defrag utility. I may be wrong, but I think it arrived as part of Service Pack 1. Rather than the old display that moves simulated blocks and gives a good idea of progress, this one looks like a spectrogram (vertical stripes on a long rectangular strip). I have left it working for about six hours, and it still never seems to get beyond a declared "1% complete". The map still looks very random at that stage. This is not, apparently, the common "disk contents changed - restarting" problem of the old defrag (solvable by shutting everything else down, and as a last resort, running in safe mode). I have done that with the new one, and it doesn't run any better. It doesn't seem to restart, but merely to keep on with "moving file xxxxxxxx.yyy" messages, at the rate of about one every 6 to 8 seconds. Some file names may be repeating, but it's hard to be sure as longer ones are truncated. My regular Norton virus check shows there to be almost 100,000 files on my system(!); so that's 700,000 seconds = almost 20 hours to do a full defrag - even if it doesn't move the same file twice. That's about 100 or more times as slow as the old "block-moving" system. And surely, even if that's so, a six-hour run should be showing rather more than 1% completion. How do I get it to work more quickly? Alternatively, where can I source a defragger that works in a reasonable time? Argus |
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| 163069 | 2003-07-26 21:22:00 | argus....try defragging in "safe mode". The fewer programmes that are running the better . | brig (1359) | ||
| 163070 | 2003-07-26 22:45:00 | I recommend Raxco's PerfectDisk. I've used version 5.0 for about a year with excellent results (6.0 is now available). They offer a free 30-day copy at www. raxco.com. The display while defragging is similar to the grid pattern of Symantec's products with different colors for different types of usage (e.g., freespace, boot files, frequently modified). It is fast and includes a setting for bootup defrag of files that can't be optimized when Windows XP is running. | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 163071 | 2003-07-26 22:47:00 | www.raxco.com | Thomas (1820) | ||
| 163072 | 2003-07-26 22:48:00 | You may have a registry problem use nortons utils or fix-it to repair then try again in safe mode I personally use Diskeeper to defrag as its faster you can get a lite demo version off the net | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 163073 | 2003-07-27 01:06:00 | goldenbow.com and yet another! |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 163074 | 2003-07-27 02:44:00 | Did you click on analyse and what percentage did it give you?. If this is the first time you have defragged for many moons I would run Disk Cleanup, then Error Checking (both Auto fix and Scan for ticked) then run defrag overnight. If you have it also run Reg Cleaner | FrankS (257) | ||
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