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Hi Guys

How long should a hard disk deffrag take?

I know it's a bit of a 'How long is a piece of string?' question, but are we talking a couple of hours or 24?

8.4 Gig disk on a P2 400 machine that was last defraged about 6 months ago.

Cheers

David

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...... 'How long is a piece of string?'

twice as long from the middle to one end  :t-up:

Posted

Yes very clever.

I know how long my string is  :p  :p

David

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Depends on the OS and what else you are running. On older versions of windows I've seen the defrag restart every time something else tries to access the disk. on XP it just seems to carry on.

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I'm running 98 and it is restarting constantly.

I have no other other programs running and have disabled the virus scan. It does seem to get a bit further each time, but christ it is slow. Nearly 24 hours now and it's up to about 80%  :0  :0

Soon I am going to have son whingeing because he can't use his Roller Coaster Tycoon for the 2nd night on the trot :angry:  :arse:

David

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if it's 98 you probably have something running in the background, hit CTRL ALT DEL and select task manager and see what process' are running.

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came up with message 'system has become unstable' blah blah

Got the Close Program box 2nd time I tried. There is about a dozen things in the list.

David

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this is from memory, but you need to get those process down to the bare minimum that allows the system to defrag!

Close/kill all running applications and other programs that run in the background, except for "Explorer and Systray".

Also make sure your screensaver is turned off, and don't use your computer for anything while it's defragging, that makes it restart.

Posted

As the guys said eliminate every possible task especially antivirus (Norton etc) and it should return to normal speed defrag.

Leave explorer running as it is your desktop

David.

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Thanks Greg and David  :t-up:  :t-up:

This sparked enough in my brain to remember having to do this last time..............well it was six months ago :durr:  :durr:

Cheers

David

P.S. Seight does your formula apply to a plank of wood :p  :devil:

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It is usually worth re-starting in safe mode to defrag - helps to minimise the hassle mentioned above of other processes making disk accesses and the defrag re-starting, i.e. it will only be running bare minimum system necessary, so no need to kill stuff off.

Depends on the extent of the fragmentation as to how long it will take...

moom

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To start Win98 in safe mode, hold the shift key down during boot up........

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P.S. Seight does your formula apply to a plank of wood :p  :devil:

only if its metric, not imperial.  :t-up:

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only if its metric, not imperial.  :t-up:

How do you know until you have measured it?  :p  :p

David

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I think I might just give up on this :arse:  :arse:

I shut down all the systems that load on start up, and still keeps restarting :angry: It seems to go through a cycle of restarting before it reaches 10% on 3 or 4 occasions then on the next attempt it seems to scroll through to where it has reached and then restarts again  :angry:  :angry:

I started it running last night and it has only hit 62% complete :(  :(

It has got to the point where I know which squares will are empty and how they will be filled ???  :0  :(  :angry:  :arse:

David

P.S. when I tried doing the hold down shift key while booting up, it came up with a sticky key message

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