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nietzsche
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 10:50AM
I have a 750 GB hard drive and i have not defragged in 18 months. It's been running 12 hours so far.
Redish All-Star Supporter
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12/03
Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 2:48PM
It could take a while to e sure.
I haven't waited that long to defrag or had a drive that large, so I can't really say how long.
Jacco All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 3:15PM
If you have lots of small files which were spread out all over the hardsisk it can take really long. How much empty space is left on the disk? If it's almost full it will take even longer.
Jacco
Robert
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 3:23PM
Have you been feeding the disk drive gerbil regularly?
nietzsche
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 7:33PM
it as 750 GB and nearly 300 GB is free. Looks like it finished in the past couple of hours.
 
nietzsche
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 7:33PM
Is that some kind of Richard Gere joke?
nietzsche
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 7:39PM
I take it back, it seems to still be running, nearly 24 hours later. I have a feeling this could take a couple of days.
Jacco All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 7:52PM
Damn, at that speed it would have been quicker to copy everything to an external harddisk, defrag the empty drive and put everything back.
Jacco
Harri Patel
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Posted - Jan 5 2011 : 9:13PM
Windows or Linux??
Jacco All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 6 2011 : 6:28AM
Linux filesystems generally don't need defragging.
Jacco
Harri Patel
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Posted - Jan 6 2011 : 5:23PM
Yeah, I thought he said at one point that he had switched completely over to Linux, so I wasn't sure what was going on.
nietzsche
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Posted - Jan 6 2011 : 9:02PM
The Linux is my laptop. The desktop still uses Windows.
Harry Joystick
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Posted - Jan 8 2011 : 5:31AM
I used to use Defraggler when I was running XP. It allows you to defrag specific files rather than the entire hard drive if you wish. I haven't used it since I've been using Windows 7 though and my hard drive is only 350GB.
DrP0rn0
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Posted - Jan 8 2011 : 7:44PM
Defraging is one of those sorta over hyped things that's *almost* an urban myth at this point. For an external drive, unless you're doing video editing or something else that's extremely I/O intensive, I think defragging is a waste of time.
For a system drive that's really, really fragged, maybe. In the last 10 years I've run defrag less than I can count on one hand, and I can't remember a single instance in which it made a significant difference.
Just my 2 cents.
Dr. P
Tug3005
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Posted - Jan 9 2011 : 9:05AM
^^^ Exactly my thoughts about defragging.
Is there something that is happening that made you think you needed to defrag, like general slowness or a "System Low on Resources" type warning?
If so, it may be more of a RAM issue.
Edited by - tug3005 on 1/9/2011 9:10:00 AM
 
RandomPrecision
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Posted - Jan 14 2011 : 7:37AM
It should take a long time if you have a bunch of pictures and you haven't defragged in a long time but 24 hours sounds like maybe something went wrong.
Gunzo
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Posted - Jan 22 2011 : 8:07AM
My esperiences with defragging is yea it is a waste of time, for some reason advocated in these magazines aimed at 'average' PC users: '10 ways to speed up your old shitty computer running a completely dilapidated Windows-installation'.
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 22 2011 : 12:30PM
Did it ever finish?
Zoid
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Posted - Jan 26 2011 : 10:19AM
It's probably still going.
mrhandz
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Posted - Feb 19 2011 : 4:23AM
:-D
Yeah, it's just faster to copy the contents to another disk/partition. format, and then copy everything back.
To keep a fast windows (which i don't use for more than 4 years now), make sure you have a windows/program partition, with a small size (20-30GB), this will force you to only have shit on other partitions, which means less fragmentation on the windows partition, and much, much faster operating speed. (when compared to 400GB of windows+pictures+mp3+shit)
sextoyfancy
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Posted - Feb 22 2011 : 2:27AM
I used to use Defraggler
cubesnake
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Posted - Mar 13 2011 : 12:25PM
why "used to" ?? I still use it and i´m very glad i found this nice tool :) It works under XP/Vista/W7 32 and 64bit
slippery sam
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Posted - Apr 13 2011 : 2:03PM
Auslogics Disk Defrag is my choice. Has a defrag or defrag and optimize option. When windows system defrag refused to work on old pc tried a few free defrag progs and this impressed with its speed.
Available for download at cnet
http://download.cnet.com/Auslogics-Disk-Defrag/3000-2094_4-10567503.html
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