defragging

[l2pc-hack]

i need your help, when i defrag, it takes for ever, i have a 20mb hard drive, running ntfs file system,amd 950 processor. it sometimes takes 30-45 minutes. is this normal?

 

[Sprung]

Sounds pretty close to normal. You might have had an extreme amount of fragmented files, and it just took a while.

 

[l2pc-hack]

no, actually, it always says i dont need to defrag,even if i do it twice, it still takes that long

 

[l2pc-hack]

maybe this is normanl, im was just spoiled with 98, and norton speed disk i guess,

 

[Sprung]

Hmmm...

The access speed of a 20MB HD is quite slow, compared to today's speed. Gotta figure that in too.

That is unless you mean GB.🙂

 

[l2pc-hack]

oh, silly me, your right again lol, i do have a 20gb

 

[l2pc-hack]

thx sprung for the help, i guess i needed to here it from someone this was normal,

 

[Sprung]

No problem 🙂

Normal is such a relative term though...😀

 

[Fhuising]

You can also use a program called Diskeeper to defragment your hardrive, it's a bit faster and also better than the windows one.

Fhuising

www.diskeeper.com

 

[ghayes]

Just about every commercial defragmenter is better than the built-in defragmenter. You mention Diskeeper. There is also:

PerfectDisk - www.raxco.com
O&O Defrag - www.oo-defrag.com
Defrag Commander - www.winternals.com
SystemWorks - www.symantec.com
Vopt - www.goldenbow.com
Ontrack - www.ontrack.com

- Greg/Raxco Software

Disclaimer: I work for Raxco Software, the maker of PerfectDisk - a commercial defrag utility, as a systems engineer in the support department.