I started a defrag 11.5 hours ago...

[fury]

and it's still at 65%

I love shitty ass slow hard drives like this IBM deathstar

 

[fury]

Whoo, after a half an hour of waiting, it's finally up to 66%!

 

[PT]

Go, IBM, Go, I know you can do it!!!!

 

[unclehobart]

whats the size of the darn thing? Mine takes like 15 min ... but its a scuzzi 17 gig.

 

[whoreable]

word. i am all about the scsi myself. i just wanna get a 15k to go with my 10k

 

[Aunty Em]

Mine takes about 15 minutes, sometimes a lot less.

 

[Luis G]

Norton Speedisk.

 

[Shadowfax]

remove partition, format, make partition


even though that's a bit drastic...

 

[fury]

89% now... It's a 60 gig, but about a quarter of it is gone to bad sectors, and then another quarter of it just gets deleted every time I reboot and it forces a disk check.

 

[PT]

You know, that might be a signal that you need a new hard drive.

 

[PostCode]

Well, when's the last time you actually defraged the system....

You are doing it in safe mode right, as well as dumping all the crap in the temp directory and deleting all the IE temp files too?

 

[outside looking in]

Yep, windows defrag sucks balls. speedisk is much quicker.

And, I've found that if your drive isn't horribly fragmented or suffers from bad sectors, then simply copying all your data to another drive, deleting the data from the first drive, and copying it back often gets rid of most fragmentation, and runs about 35820983798 times faster than windows defrag.

 

[dan]

I love shitty ass slow hard drives like this IBM deathstar

Is it really called a deathstar? how cool!

 

[fury]

Well, when's the last time you actually defraged the system....

I forget. Last year I think...

You are doing it in safe mode right, as well as dumping all the crap in the temp directory and deleting all the IE temp files too?

No, no, and no. I knew I was forgetting something

 

[fury]

It isn't Windows Defragger either, it's Executive Software Diskeeper

 

[PostCode]

Defrag in safe mode. There isn't a swap file holding down a big chunk of the hard drive that has to be worked around. Next boot, the swap file gets placed at the end of the data. Depending on RAM size, this chunk can be quite large.

 

[whoreable]

if you got bad sectors i would rma it or try to format it.

 

[Bubba]

Love my Maxtor. I never defrag. It wears the drive out if you do it enough.

 

[PostCode]

Wears the drive out? Drives are rated in MTBF, Mean Time Before Failure. This rating is in time, not wear, as the heads aren't even supposed to be even touching the platters. Wear comes from spinning the platters up and down, thus producing more strain on the drive motor. If anything, turning your computer on and off and using power management causes the wear.

 

[PT]

That's kinda what I thought. I've heard it said that if a drive doesn't fail within the first 48 hours of use, it will usually last around 5 years, no matter how much you use it.