Thread: Defrag

Apparently this is bad:

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How long should this take / how do I make it go faster?

It's still saying 1% compacting files after at least 30 minutes. :l

Ouch, that will take a while. Just let it run overnight. Or a few nights. :/ On my old PC I would let it run in the background but it would still take ages even though I wasn't anywhere near your level.

Hm, it's got 14% done in 2 hours or so now, so yeah, I'll give it half a day or so.

That looks like an old harddrive, it's probably a little slow. Just give it time

Time to switch dude. Modern operating systems don't suffer from disk defragmentation.

Switch to what? (Probably a dangerous question in the techie forum).

I'm on XP right now which I didn't think was that dated. I'm defragging because games became unplayable within an hour or so of playing, but I thought Vista was so power-hungry that with older processors (mine's 2Ghz) it slowed down games too much anyway..?

The hard drive is quite old, maybe 7 years or so.

Oh, and defrag stopped at 25% or so because it couldn't defrag all files for some reason. Cure?

Reinstall your operating system. And if you want to get rid of disk fragmentation switch to Linux. Ubuntu is the best distribution i know of and if you want a more esthetically pleasing look try Kubuntu( a variant of Ubuntu). However you might experience problems with games since you'll have to use an emulator so not all games will work. Hope this helps

Upgrade to Windows 7, not vista. Windows 7 is not considered a modern operating system either though from a technical standpoint. It still suffers from fragmented hard drives, but not as badly.

Don't switch to a Linux distro. There is no good reason for everyday computer users like 99.9% of us to use Linux other than the lack of price tag, and I'm willing to bet that your university provides either free or discounted copies of various versions of Windows through the IT/Student Services/whatever-analog department. I made the mistake in high school for a few months before coming back to my senses and realizing that after a full month of tweaks and hacks, I had accomplished reaching about 90% of my original functionality.

Spoiler for XKCD:

I've had it take anywhere from hours to days. If it takes two days plus- it is time to get a new hard-drive.

I like Linux but use dual booting Also i checked my drives for fragmenting and was at only 5% with heavy gaming going around. Can't hate Win7

Download and run this disk defrag program, it's many times better than the inbuilt one.

http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ (I recommend using the defrag+optimizing option)

It's really difficult to defragment a drive that is as full as that. Defrag needs some room.