Slow Defragmentation

[Guest Daz]

I am running XP with SP3 on a 160GB hard drive, of which I have used about

10GB. I have a 1.8G processor.

 

I use Diskeeper 9 Professional to defrag. Until recently it would defrag in

about 10 to 15 mins at the most. It has now slowed down to a crawl.

 

I have tried using the built in XP defragger which completes very quickly. I

have tried Diskeeper Lite and that too takes a long time.

 

Even when I have just completed a defrag and run Diskeeper again it still

then takes an age to complete.

 

I have done a lot of Googling but can not come up with a solution.

 

Any ideas would be appreciated.

 

Daz

[Guest Daz]

Re: Slow Defragmentation

 

I seem to have found the answer. I ran chkdsk, which ran through very

quickly and low and behold Diskeeper ran through in a matter of minutes.

 

So the problem seems to be solved.

[Guest Lee M.]

Re: Slow Defragmentation

 

 

"Daz" <Daz@nopc.com> wrote in message

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>I am running XP with SP3 on a 160GB hard drive, of which I have used about

>10GB. I have a 1.8G processor.

>

> I use Diskeeper 9 Professional to defrag. Until recently it would defrag

> in about 10 to 15 mins at the most. It has now slowed down to a crawl.

>

> I have tried using the built in XP defragger which completes very quickly.

> I have tried Diskeeper Lite and that too takes a long time.

>

> Even when I have just completed a defrag and run Diskeeper again it still

> then takes an age to complete.

>

> I have done a lot of Googling but can not come up with a solution.

>

> Any ideas would be appreciated.

>

> Daz

>

I am having a similar problem with the XP defragger. It recently ran for

over 1 hour and was only 20% complete even though the fragmentation level

was low enough to say it wasn't really needed. I have a 120gig disk with

72gig free. Any other suggestions?

[Guest Bob I]

Re: Slow Defragmentation

 

 

 

Lee M. wrote:

> "Daz" <Daz@nopc.com> wrote in message

> news:eiya$lF$IHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>

>>I am running XP with SP3 on a 160GB hard drive, of which I have used about

>>10GB. I have a 1.8G processor.

>>

>>I use Diskeeper 9 Professional to defrag. Until recently it would defrag

>>in about 10 to 15 mins at the most. It has now slowed down to a crawl.

>>

>>I have tried using the built in XP defragger which completes very quickly.

>>I have tried Diskeeper Lite and that too takes a long time.

>>

>>Even when I have just completed a defrag and run Diskeeper again it still

>>then takes an age to complete.

>>

>>I have done a lot of Googling but can not come up with a solution.

>>

>>Any ideas would be appreciated.

>>

>>Daz

>>

>

> I am having a similar problem with the XP defragger. It recently ran for

> over 1 hour and was only 20% complete even though the fragmentation level

> was low enough to say it wasn't really needed. I have a 120gig disk with

> 72gig free. Any other suggestions?

>

>

Safe mode.

[Guest Gerry]

Re: Slow Defragmentation

 

Lee

 

Run Disk CleanUp before running Disk Defragmenter.

 

I would be interested in seeing a Disk Defragmenter report. Open Disk

Defragmenter and click on Analyse. Select View Report and

click on Save As and Save. Now find VolumeC.txt in your My Documents

Folder and post a copy. Do this before running Disk Defragmenter as it

is more informative.

 

 

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Hope this helps.

 

Gerry

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Stourport, England

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Lee M. wrote:

> "Daz" <Daz@nopc.com> wrote in message

> news:eiya$lF$IHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> I am running XP with SP3 on a 160GB hard drive, of which I have used

>> about 10GB. I have a 1.8G processor.

>>

>> I use Diskeeper 9 Professional to defrag. Until recently it would

>> defrag in about 10 to 15 mins at the most. It has now slowed down to

>> a crawl. I have tried using the built in XP defragger which completes

>> very

>> quickly. I have tried Diskeeper Lite and that too takes a long time.

>>

>> Even when I have just completed a defrag and run Diskeeper again it

>> still then takes an age to complete.

>>

>> I have done a lot of Googling but can not come up with a solution.

>>

>> Any ideas would be appreciated.

>>

>> Daz

>>

> I am having a similar problem with the XP defragger. It recently ran

> for over 1 hour and was only 20% complete even though the

> fragmentation level was low enough to say it wasn't really needed. I

> have a 120gig disk with 72gig free. Any other suggestions?

[Guest Ian D]

Re: Slow Defragmentation

 

 

"Lee M." <lmacmil@forget_it.com> wrote in message

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>

> "Daz" <Daz@nopc.com> wrote in message

> news:eiya$lF$IHA.3396@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>>I am running XP with SP3 on a 160GB hard drive, of which I have used about

>>10GB. I have a 1.8G processor.

>>

>> I use Diskeeper 9 Professional to defrag. Until recently it would defrag

>> in about 10 to 15 mins at the most. It has now slowed down to a crawl.

>>

>> I have tried using the built in XP defragger which completes very

>> quickly. I have tried Diskeeper Lite and that too takes a long time.

>>

>> Even when I have just completed a defrag and run Diskeeper again it still

>> then takes an age to complete.

>>

>> I have done a lot of Googling but can not come up with a solution.

>>

>> Any ideas would be appreciated.

>>

>> Daz

>>

> I am having a similar problem with the XP defragger. It recently ran for

> over 1 hour and was only 20% complete even though the fragmentation level

> was low enough to say it wasn't really needed. I have a 120gig disk with

> 72gig free. Any other suggestions?

>

 

After defragging, which may only take a few minutes, Diskeeper works at

consolidating files toward the front, if they are scattered throughout the

partition. If you have some really large files, or thousands of tiny files,

this can take a while.