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[Neon]

When I first started using Norton's defrag utility, I noticed that it's quicker than the MS scandisk util that comes with Windows.  So, the particular defrag util can make a difference.

It should not keep starting over (and not finish). Are you sure all other programs are closed while you try this? Sounds like you did the ctr-alt-del thing, and closed everything.

20 min for a 6GB drive is pretty good. I have like 4GB of data, and it takes about 50 min. However, it depends also on just how fragged the drive is. Since my drive is partitioned, I actually only defrag the partitions that get a lot of read/write action, and don't worry about the rest. Divide and conquer. If it were 40GB, I'd just let it go overnight.



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P.S. This week's Langa List has some tips on defragging. Check out the suggestions there and at this link:

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=defrag&sp-a=0008002a-sp00000000



Edited by - Neon on Feb 09 2001  12:35:41 AM

[Bubba]

Whenever I do a defrag,,I shutdown all background programs,, I even have to close systray, [ explorer, only thing left ] or it will not complete a defrag,, just keeps starting over. Is this normal ?  Plus, I only have a 6gig hard drive,, it takes about 20 minutes plus to defrag it,, how do these floks with 40 gig drives ever get it done ?



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Bubba