Looooong scandisk & defrag

[SavagePenguin]

Yesterday morning I decided to clean up my hard drive at work. I zipped some customer's HD's I had saved (I save problem-customer's hard drives for quick repair), and delted the uncompressed DATA.

At around 10:00am I rebooted in safe mode, deleted more garbage, and did a thorough scandisk (no errors). When that finally finished I did a defrag.

That night when I went home defrag was just under 50% complete. It finished by 8:30 this morning when I came it for work.

That left me Windriversles for an entire day.

[Pyroate]

How big was that HDD??

[Kymera]

Must have been MS Defrag. That thing take forever on my PC.

[SavagePenguin]

The HD's a "whopping" 12 gigs. Most of it's content was rearranged, so I can see it taking awhile. I didn't expect to be deprived of the computer all day though. Cripes!

[Pyroate]

Have you tried replacing the msdefrag with the one in ME?? Had one that would not defrag even with a third party utility program tried the MEdefrag not only did it work it only took like 7 hours to do 60gig heavily fragmented.

[ephmynus]

I would imagine after a defrag that long that you would be able to see quite a noticeable difference afterwards. Is this the case?

[jimtcurry]

Ive noticed this too.
What i usually do is the ctrl+alt+del trick and end task everything except explorer, and also disable the screensaver and any power management util like hd power down standby, monitor off....etc.
this usually speeds things up even with the ME version of scandisk and defrag.

[LongAgo]

I've never had the joy of experience a defrag running for more than an hour. Today I was running a scandisk on a HDD I was installing and gave up because there were so many bad areas on the drive.

Told the guy he needed a new drive.