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Nov 28, 2002 | 08:38 AM

super_si

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Ive left it for 10hours and it looks like its only done 50%.

Is this right? 160GB drive(2*80)
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Nov 28, 2002 | 09:12 AM

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How much data on them?

Nov 28, 2002 | 09:15 AM

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Have you got any anti-virus running ? That can keep reseting the defrag.

Nov 28, 2002 | 09:26 AM

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Its all idle at the moment

click here

clickable because its a big image on screen. Only 27k though.

Just to add, chris there both striped.

[Edited by super_si - 11/28/2002 9:27:22 AM]

Nov 28, 2002 | 09:35 AM

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Close down everything except Explorer and Systray.

Nov 28, 2002 | 10:15 AM

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thanks

Nov 28, 2002 | 12:34 PM

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You could download a prog. called "EnditAll" which closes down everything except windows system apps...this way nothing should interrupt.

Failing this get Norton Utils..It has "speed disk" which is much much much quicker than defrag..

Tony

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Nov 28, 2002 | 12:34 PM

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windows scheduler, screen saver, and anti-virus software are great at making the defrag restart.

I defragged a single ata100 40gig ibm drive in around 20 minutes last night, so 10 hours would seem excessive.

Nov 28, 2002 | 01:48 PM

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Still going now

it is 160gb i suppose! alot moving + im still using it now an again to check this

Nov 28, 2002 | 01:58 PM

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depends how much data youve got on!

Nov 28, 2002 | 02:35 PM

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60GB

Nov 28, 2002 | 02:45 PM

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It's also dependent on how regularly you run the defrag. If this is the first time in ages, it'll take longer.

Nov 28, 2002 | 04:51 PM

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what OS is it? if it is 95 or 98 then there is a bug in the defrag tool where it can not move files that are in use and just hangs, you need to get the ME version of defrag and load it into windows. If it is 2K then I can't help you.

Nov 28, 2002 | 05:33 PM

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From: diskdepot

As someone mentioned. Norton Ulilities 2002 has an excellent funnction called 'speed disk'
This not only defrags your harddrive but arrances the data according to usage/apps etc.

Available at a very competetive price via Kazaa/eDonkey2000 etc

Paul

Nov 28, 2002 | 07:34 PM

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woohoo got in and shes done finally

Si

Nov 28, 2002 | 09:18 PM

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hope you haven'nt got your screen saver on, that will start it all over again.

chel xxxx

Nov 28, 2002 | 09:58 PM

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Dont use them

Nov 29, 2002 | 10:07 AM

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Looks to me like Kaza is causing your problem, but best practice would be to close down everything, including any 'taskbar' utilities that might be running and causing any sort of disk i/o.