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defrag...time
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. |
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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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"Galen" wrote 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 Got a reading comprehension problem? The OP wrote and I quote: "i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week" To the OP: did you do a clean up before the scan disk and defrag? How full is your disk drive? Alias |
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Alias had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: "Galen" wrote 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 Got a reading comprehension problem? The OP wrote and I quote: "i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week" To the OP: did you do a clean up before the scan disk and defrag? How full is your disk drive? Alias Got a reading comprehension problem? The OP wrote and I do quote "and yes I did the delete/temp/history..." (Which is certainly a clean up.) I also point out that you asked basically the same questions I did. You posted this why? Me? Personally? I can admit that I missed the safe mode bit. I'm not exactly sure how I did but I did. It's not unknown for me to miss something and when I do I'm quite happy to admit that I did because I've never once maintained that I was anything close to perfect. But I don't intentionally kvetch and then post questions already asked and then repeat the same sort of mistake by failing to comprehend the entire post from the OP. Enough said? Galen -- Signature changed for a moment of silence. Rest well Alex and we'll see you on the other side. |
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"Galen" wrote in message ... In , Alias had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: "Galen" wrote 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? In safe mode??? Have you tried defragging in safe mode? snicker Does it often restart because it says contents changed or the like? In safe mode??? 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 Got a reading comprehension problem? The OP wrote and I quote: "i do a scan disk & defrag in safe mode 1x a week" To the OP: did you do a clean up before the scan disk and defrag? How full is your disk drive? Alias Got a reading comprehension problem? The OP wrote and I do quote "and yes I did the delete/temp/history..." (Which is certainly a clean up.) Not the clean up I was referring to. I mean the one that is located at Start/Programs/Assessories/System Tools/Clean up. point out that you asked basically the same questions I did. Only the question about how full the drive is. And, so effin what? You posted this why? The mood struck me. Me? Personally? I can admit that I missed the safe mode bit. I'm not exactly sure how I did but I did. Reading comprehension problem? It's not unknown for me to miss something and when I do I'm quite happy to admit that I did because I've never once maintained that I was anything close to perfect. But I don't intentionally kvetch and then post questions already asked and then repeat the same sort of mistake by failing to comprehend the entire post from the OP. Enough said? Galen So far. Hey, if you don't like what I post, please use your kill file. Alias |
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Alias had this to say: My reply is at the bottom of your sent message: So far. Hey, if you don't like what I post, please use your kill file. Nah, I did that once. I felt bad. Besides, someday you may post something that is valuable and something I can learn from. I'd miss that if I'd deleted your posts automatically. I wouldn't want to deprive myself from the chance to learn something new. As I'd mentioned... I missed it... I'm not always right and make no claims of being right all the time. I'm right often enough to warrant my posting however. Description of the Disk Cleanup Tool: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=186099 If you look and see what it does (as pertains to cleaning up space) you will see that the OP has posted that they've cleaned out as much data as they're wanting to clean. The few MB of data left over from possibly leaving accessibility options installed isn't going to make a great deal of difference. In a case of 6 hours or more it's certainly not going to make a difference. Running said tool isn't going to make much of a difference in the scope of things when the majority of disk space will surely have been cleaned by doing as the OP has done already. Just to be more me-like... You are, I hope, aware that even though I missed the OP's post about the safe mode bit my questions are still quite valid and that malware has been known to run in safe mode? The snickers about that only show that you're probably not aware of this. While the recommendations to remove malware in safe mode are correct it's only because it's more likely that you'll be able to remove it easier and not at all because it's impossible for the processes to still be running. If the defrag is stopping due to contents changing while in safe mode it's actually a good sign that there's something more sinister afoot. Viruses running as explorer.exe? Or attached to it? This process, for one, starts with safe mode... Of course it does, you *need* explorer.exe to have a shell to operate in for the most part. (Okay, you don't really NEED it but as defrag is a GUI operation you'll certainly need it to defrag.) The beauty is that on 9x/ME you don't even get to see the running process listed while in XP, for instance, you'd get to see a generic listing of svchost.exe... Fun fun and we haven't even touched on rootkits yet? Do enjoy your day. No, I don't have to like your posts nor agree with them. It's a public forum and you're free to do as you'd like within certain boundries and you can even violate those boundries if you want, the most that will happen is a post gets deleted or some such. Nothing major but I'm certainly not going to killfile you. I did that once, felt bad, recently removed it, and sure enough the very next post I read was actually full of good information. I guess I'm either above it or just not thin skinned enough to worry about it. 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 wrote:
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. If you have a large drive it's going to take awhile. Things to turn *off* to speed it up are "surface scan" for scandisk and something else for defrag (don't recall and don't have it in front of me). Both of which should be used occasionally though. HTH Rick |
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One thing to note is that Defrag in Safe Mode will ALWAYS be slower than
defrag in Normal Mode - it's running in a much smaller memory space. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2005, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Rick T" wrote in message ... boni wrote: 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. If you have a large drive it's going to take awhile. Things to turn *off* to speed it up are "surface scan" for scandisk and something else for defrag (don't recall and don't have it in front of me). Both of which should be used occasionally though. HTH Rick |
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"boni" wrote:
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. You shouldn’t have to run defrag in safe mode. I think defrag requires 16% available space to run properly. 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. -- Posted using the http://www.windowsforumz.com interface, at author's request Articles individually checked for conformance to usenet standards Topic URL: http://www.windowsforumz.com/General...ict359679.html Visit Topic URL to contact author (reg. req'd). Report abuse: http://www.windowsforumz.com/eform.php?p=1150309 |
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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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