Disk Defragmenter

[The Boosh!]

It has been on one for around 13 hours now. is this normal :S

 

[DanCup]

Errrrrm....depends on the size of the disk etc, but generally nope....if I run a defrag on work machines I can usually complete it in around an hour on a 80gb HDD

 

[The Boosh!]

shatter lol... shall i just cancel it and forget about it?

its on windows vista so it has two partions to defragment... but yeh it is only still an 80gb HDD so shouldn't be taking this long right?

my old XP took about 2/3 hours to do

 

[DanCup]

Cancel, try and start the process again

 

[rctempire]

Close all AV programs and disconnect ethernet cables. Try end as many programs as you can before starting it, so it doesnt hamper the performance and takes less time.

 

[martynh]

run chkdsk?

 

[The Boosh!]

thanks for the responses guys. gonna run chkdsk then restart comp then retry

 

[The Boosh!]

ffs. can someone explain this please. i am the system admin etc but never heard of elevated mode :S

"

C:\Users\Luke>chkdsk
Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.

 

[David]

insert xp cd rom, go to recovery mode, run chkdsk -r then restart and defrag

 

[Griff]

insert xp cd rom, go to recovery mode, run chkdsk -r then restart and defrag

He's running Vista by the looks of it.

Accesories > Command Prompt (Right click, "Run as Administrator") > chkdsk

 

[The Boosh!]

thankyou griff <33

 

[KDF]

Vista FTL !

 

[Griff]

Vista FTL !

Posting a negative reply to EVERY Vista thread FTL +1

 

[KDF]

I would have posted something helpful but you already sorted his problem... and I was already in the thread so I thought it would be rude to leave without saying something

 

[sh33n]

Is there a way to su at a cmd prompt in Vista?

 

[Griff]

Is there a way to su at a cmd prompt in Vista?

Again in English?

 

[KDF]

its a *nix thing, he means change to the root (or any other user you want to) from any other account.

 

[Griff]

Aah I wasn't sure if he meant "su" or made a typo..

In answer to the question I've no idea.

 

[cat171]

My old computer was really screwed, the dic degfragment took 1.5 DAYS !!! I never bothered to do anything with it, kept on top of it after that though.

 

[Andi-B]

My old computer was really screwed, the dic degfragment took 1.5 DAYS !!! I never bothered to do anything with it, kept on top of it after that though.

If it's using programs in the background it's constantly writing to HD and virtual, so that's probably why that took so long.

I'm wondering how long mine would take now... 4x 500Gb Hd's will be a doddle :S