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Re: 12 Hrs and still defragmenting
I'd look for other causes. Take a look in the bios to see what the settings
are for the hard disk. Bring up Task Manager to see what's actually using
all the CPU. Turn off (disable) the Windows Search process - that takes a
lot of cycles...
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"Frolov Alexandr" <mordrox@yandex.ru> wrote in message
news:9CB1C18B-22FD-40AD-AAC4-FEF3D00F82E4@microsoft.com...
> Frustrated here as well
> lack of information in both gui based and console versions of built in
> defragmentator programs made me nervous.
> so i downloaded a 30 day trial diskeeper 2007 and guess what? works as
> slow
> as buit in.
> my guess would be that they all use same api and that's where the problem
> lies
> i mean there is no way your 60gb disk could be not defragmented in 12
> hours.
>
> well at least diskeeper provides some feedback on what it is currently
> busy
> with.
> i don't really understant what was the point of gimping defrag utility in
> vista.
> in nt 4 there was no built in defrag hence everyone and his dog was using
> third party utilities
> win2k brought defragmentation to OS and it was good enough
>
> now we have Aero on one side and hours long working defrag without any
> feedback. that's a lot of frustration
>
> Frolov Alexander
>
> "Amit" <Amit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:BA30DE15-7A00-46B3-815F-B9A68FA4DDF4@microsoft.com...
>>I have a laptop with intel core 2 duo 2.0 Ghz cpu and 2GB RAM, my laptop
>>was
>> damn slow so I started the disk defragmenter and 12 Hrs and still
>> defragmenting 60 gb hdd with 20 gb free space?
>> Any ideas what may be going wrong? or is this normal for the lovely
>> Windows
>> Vista?
>>
>
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