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How big is your disk and what is it full of ?
Rick boni wrote: one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents
? thanks "boni" wrote in message ... one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ...appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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Perhaps both the Total Size and the amount of Free Space of your disk would
be a useful starting point. (Can be ascertained in My Computer and/or Windows Explorer) N.B. Defrag requires some 15% Free Space to run, hence the more Free Space - the faster it will run. See also :- "Description of the Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 98/Me" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;186171 Mart "boni" wrote in message ... where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents ? thanks "boni" wrote in message ... one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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local disk (c
capacity 18.6 gb used 10.0 gb free 8.86 gb 914kb "Mart" wrote in message ... Perhaps both the Total Size and the amount of Free Space of your disk would be a useful starting point. (Can be ascertained in My Computer and/or Windows Explorer) N.B. Defrag requires some 15% Free Space to run, hence the more Free Space - the faster it will run. See also :- "Description of the Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 98/Me" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;186171 Mart "boni" wrote in message ... where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents ? thanks "boni" wrote in message ... one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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boni
I've been using Diskeeper Lite, a free utility to defrag my 'puter for several years without any problem whatsoever. It's the light version of Diskeeper by Executive Software that sells for $40 or so. It takes less than 30 minutes to run on my computer. If interested you may download from, http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=1207 Try it; if you don't like it, simply uninstall it. Dan "boni" wrote in message ... local disk (c capacity 18.6 gb used 10.0 gb free 8.86 gb 914kb "Mart" wrote in message ... Perhaps both the Total Size and the amount of Free Space of your disk would be a useful starting point. (Can be ascertained in My Computer and/or Windows Explorer) N.B. Defrag requires some 15% Free Space to run, hence the more Free Space - the faster it will run. See also :- "Description of the Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 98/Me" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;186171 Mart "boni" wrote in message ... where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents ? thanks "boni" wrote in message ... one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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There's no way 10 GB should take 7-8 hours to defragment, so:
- ensure that your disk is set for DMA access - download and use ScanDefrag, developed by some of the MVPs who frequent these helpgroups. http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag - when you're running a Scandisk, don't use the "Surface Scan" option on a regular basis. This should get you down to a couple hours at most (which is still too long for that amount of data but it's an improvement) Rick boni wrote: local disk (c capacity 18.6 gb used 10.0 gb free 8.86 gb 914kb "Mart" wrote in message ... Perhaps both the Total Size and the amount of Free Space of your disk would be a useful starting point. (Can be ascertained in My Computer and/or Windows Explorer) N.B. Defrag requires some 15% Free Space to run, hence the more Free Space - the faster it will run. See also :- "Description of the Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 98/Me" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;186171 Mart "boni" wrote in message ... where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents ? thanks "boni" wrote in message . .. one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message .. . In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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Is it Scandisk or Defrag which takes MOST of the time?
If Scandisk, are you ALWAYS running it in Thorough mode? Is there any (much) difference in time taken to run Scandisk in Safe Mode or in Real Mode DOS (using your WinMe Startup (floppy) Disk)? If Defrag, is the disk badly fragmented each time, before you run it? (But bear in mind Rick's comment DMA) Mart "boni" wrote in message ... local disk (c capacity 18.6 gb used 10.0 gb free 8.86 gb 914kb "Mart" wrote in message ... Perhaps both the Total Size and the amount of Free Space of your disk would be a useful starting point. (Can be ascertained in My Computer and/or Windows Explorer) N.B. Defrag requires some 15% Free Space to run, hence the more Free Space - the faster it will run. See also :- "Description of the Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 98/Me" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;186171 Mart "boni" wrote in message ... where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents ? thanks "boni" wrote in message ... one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware . i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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In ,
boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: local disk (c capacity 18.6 gb used 10.0 gb As has been stated by others there's no way that should be taking as long as it has. For starters, as Noel pointed out, it should take a bit longer in safemode as there's less memory space available. What happens if you try to use it in regular mode? Using the ctrl + alt + delete and shutting off all the processes except systray, explorer, and maybe rundll32 though I don't think that one has to be running, does it defrag faster? Galen -- "My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes |
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Why don’t you
downloading a free copy of a third party defrag program and try to see if that works better for you. 6 hours is way too long. Try Diskeeper Lite , a freeware program . It will take more like 6 minutes to defrag the HDD! And you can use the computer for other tasks at the same time. |
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thanks ... i will try diskeeper and blueorbsoft
i don't understand , ensure that disk is set for DMA access? if defrag is badly fragmented each time before i run it , how will i be able to tell ? when i try to defrag on regular mode it runs, just about the same. if i were to use the ctrl + alt + delete and shutting off all the processes rundll32 does not appear . should it? boni. "boni" wrote in message ... local disk (c capacity 18.6 gb used 10.0 gb free 8.86 gb 914kb "Mart" wrote in message ... Perhaps both the Total Size and the amount of Free Space of your disk would be a useful starting point. (Can be ascertained in My Computer and/or Windows Explorer) N.B. Defrag requires some 15% Free Space to run, hence the more Free Space - the faster it will run. See also :- "Description of the Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 98/Me" http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;186171 Mart "boni" wrote in message ... where would i begin to respond to the question ...size of disk and contents ? thanks "boni" wrote in message ... one week later...... did the same again. this time defrag took about 8hrs. on safe mode to complete. honestly, in respond to your question .. drive used for other things ?? or burning to cd ?? or media files to slave drive, maybe all the suggestions made by you have the solution. except ..i wouldn't know where to begin and resolve the problem. so that when i defrag on safe mode it wouldn't take so long. since i am doing it weekly. no i don't have adware nor spyware .. i have ez av/firewall/ spybot. simple/uncomplicated directions ..appreciated. thank you. boni. "Galen" wrote in message ... In , boni had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week, and it takes more than 6hrs. and yes i did the delete/temp/history first before going into safe mode. is there a reason why it takes so long ? any suggestions ? thanks. boni. Perhaps you have a bunch of stuff on your drive? Your drive is also being used for other things? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? Is your drive rather full of stuff? If so then do you have the option of burning it to CD or installing a slave drive and storing non-application files and media files on the slaved drive? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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