Vista - Defrag so slow

I thought I had asked this before but upon searching I found that I did'nt and could not find anyone else posting about this, so here I go again

I like using Auslogics Defrag, but its taking an absolute eternity to defrag, I tend to defrag after every install of a game and I installed another game this afternoon and its still defragging now, is this normal?? does'nt feel like it

My only thought is and I'm just guessing that would it be at all down to the fact that I have disabled index searching, or even the system restore being on?

I'm annoyed at the fact that its taken almost all afternoon to defrag and counting

Any ideas?

Jekyll and Hyde

Hi Chris,

This is certainly not normal behaviour for Auslogics Defrag, which is usually quite quick. I am wondering if this, and the problem you have had here: What a night!!!, are linked. When you boot your system, how long does it take before the desktop appears?

Hi Dwarf,

Just had to shoot off and do a re-boot to try to give you an accurate as possible answer, I would say and I was counting in my mind so its not perfect, but I would say close to 1 minute to boot

Chris

Have you ran the diagnostics on that drive from the drive manuf. site ? ?
Doesn't sound normal for Auslogics and that drive may be going South...

Well it better not be going as thats it then, no new HD for me, its a Seagate Barracuda 500 Gig

I have'nt done that no, not sure if they have such a thing, I'll take a look

Hi Chris,

If you don't have the tools to hand you can check here ....

Seagate Technology - SeaTools

Hi Nigel,

Thanks, I got the tools, and am almost done although its currently on a Long Generic Test, once I have all the results I'll post back

I realy hope my drive is still good as I really now cannot afford a new HD, I know you can probably get them cheap on the Net, but that is a no go for me as I have no credit cards and my Mum has to do it and she won't plain and simple, so my only other option is to buy from my Computer guy and as I have just bought and will be getting a new case and PSU end of the week, the last thing I can do is afford a new HD

I really hope that that is not the case

Chris

Just finished using the Seagate Tools and this is what came back:

Smart = Pass
Short DST = Pass
Long DST = Pass
Drive Information = Identify Pass
Short Generic = Pass
Long Generic = Pass

I am not going to do the advanced tests as it came up with a warning about possibly making my drive unusable (not a risk I am prepared to take)

So with at least the results above surely this means my HD is ok, or would it mean that I must do the advanced tests? not happy about doing that though

I guess I am just looking for you guys to confirm or reassure me that my HD is fine, I know it says pass for everything and that anyone other than me would be quite happy, but I am not tech nut and am still worried about the close to 1 minute boot time.

Jekyll and Hyde

Hi chris

your HDD seems fine from the results you've posted.

When you have a bit of time

You may want to try a little test to see if there is a startup item that is causing your delay in starting

First have a look here ...

Boot Up Time

download and Run the program it will give you a reboot time

Press the start orb and type MSCONFIG.MSC and run the program that appears on the list.

Go to the startup tab and click the disable all button - click OK and select exit without re-boot

run the reboot test and see what the difference in speed is

Go back into MSconfig after you have finished and re-enable all your items.

If there is a significant improvement in reboot well can then look at your startup items and see what we can do to improve things

Hi Nigel,

Thank you for that great tool, never knew about it, and well here is what happened:

After having followed your instructions I got a reboot time of 78

I then re-enabled all the items that I need and it went up to 82

I guess this is not good?


Chris