Only 200GB space used.
2007-01-06 00:38:13 · 4 answers · asked by MikeG 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Have you hard-drive & memory check. If is taking that long (especially if you are using Diskeeper), is likely your drive is suffering write errors
2007-01-06 00:49:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should not take that long for normal defragmentation of 200gb of data.
-Make sure you have any disk-hog applications closed while defragmenting, especially file-sharing.
-Make sure your ram isn't being used up. If you have too much ram being eaten up, your computer will be using a page-file on your hard drive as virtual memory, which will constantly interrupt the defrag operation. Even worse, your page file might be variable in size and may change, eating more hard disk time.
-try turning off security/antivirus programs when you defrag. one of them may be watching any operations diskeeper is making and will drastically slow things down, especially heuristic antivirus security
-check that your drive isn't "bad" somehow, ie bad sectors, write errors etc.
-turn off network access to your hard drive during defrag
-do scheduled defragmentation, it is possible that your drive is just REALLY fragmented
-try another defrag application
2007-01-06 08:52:16 · answer #2 · answered by Brendan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you haven't defragged your disk drive for a long long long time now...so Diskeeper took days...maybe I mean...literally.
Okay, I know Diskeeper is FASTEST defragmenter ever but in this case never happened to me, best advice is, schedule defragmentation (automatic) once in a while so if defragmentation is not complete, you can continue it later, Diskeeper has the ability to do that.
2007-01-06 08:45:19 · answer #3 · answered by Sp()oNg3Y::V.3.[] 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to do 8 gb takes bout 2 hours with windows defrag. so 24 hours for 200gb isnt bad, specially if you havent done it in ages.
2007-01-06 08:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by Mo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋