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The Reason I've been gone 26+ Hours......
Posted: 2002-12-07 06:03am
by MKSheppard
And No, it doesn't involve guns, dead bodies, or other unsavory
things....
Rather, it was defragging the main hard drive on this computer.
50% done in 26 hours(!)
Now, it may seem like a waste of time for you to defrag your HDD
every month or week, when it is only 5%, but trust me, it is MUCH
faster that way than letting your HDD go all the way up to 70-90%
fragmented.
Also, never, ever, let your computer go over a year without defragging
it.
This computer is MUCH MUCH more snappier than it was on Thursday....
So I guess moving those colored blocks around DID have some effect.
Posted: 2002-12-07 06:05am
by Kuja
Everyone was too busy worrying about Kelly to notice you're disappearence, Shep.
Yeah, defragging your hard drive should probably be done once a month.
Posted: 2002-12-07 06:07am
by MKSheppard
IG-88E wrote:Everyone was too busy worrying about Kelly to notice you're disappearence, Shep.
She's gone?
Posted: 2002-12-07 06:08am
by Crown
It's okay Shep, I noticed that you were gone for a while.
Posted: 2002-12-07 06:12am
by Kuja
MKSheppard wrote:
She's gone?
No, she just went off and people got worried because of the ice storm in NC. Turned out she lost power at home, but she can still post at work.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:00pm
by TrailerParkJawa
I usually recommend completely reinstalling a Windows machine after a year due to "windows rot". Mike does a good job explaining about it on his personal page. Ive been asked to defrag many machines that are over a year old. Boy it DOES take a while.
Im a little over zealous with defragging, I used to do it every Friday night, but now that I have a big HD once every 3-4 weeks is okay.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:01pm
by Evil Sadistic Bastard
How big are your HDs?
Mine is only 40GBs but it takes me hours to defrag it. Must be all that Hentai.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:11pm
by HemlockGrey
I haven't defragged my 40GB harddrive ever. I guess I should get to it.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:11pm
by Evil Sadistic Bastard
Actually I have 2 of them, giving me 80 GBs.
But yeah, Cyril, you should defrag yours.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:14pm
by TrailerParkJawa
I have two 30 GB Maxtors in a stripe set. It took 3 or 4 hours to defrag last time. I think thats why I used to do it once a week. It really reduces the time to completion.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:17pm
by The Dark
I can't defrag mine any more. There's some sort of damaged sector on the hard drive that causes the scandisk to freeze when it runs in thorough mode. No thorough scandisk, no defrag.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:38pm
by TrailerParkJawa
I can't defrag mine any more. There's some sort of damaged sector on the hard drive that causes the scandisk to freeze when it runs in thorough mode. No thorough scandisk, no defrag.
If you can afford it buy a copy of Diskeeper. Its a good third party defrag utility and it is much better than the built in Windows 98 defragger. ( Im assuming thats what you are using )
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:39pm
by The Dark
TrailerParkJawa wrote:I can't defrag mine any more. There's some sort of damaged sector on the hard drive that causes the scandisk to freeze when it runs in thorough mode. No thorough scandisk, no defrag.
If you can afford it buy a copy of Diskeeper. Its a good third party defrag utility and it is much better than the built in Windows 98 defragger. ( Im assuming thats what you are using )
Win ME. Shoulda mentioned it above, but I didn't actually expect someone to have an answer for me.
Posted: 2002-12-07 01:57pm
by TrailerParkJawa
Win ME. Shoulda mentioned it above, but I didn't actually expect someone to have an answer for me.
Yeah, ME is the same too. 95/98/ME are notoriously bad for defragging. NT does not have one built in, so thats why I recommend a copy of Diskeeper.
Win2K comes with Diskeeper Lite built in.
Have you tried running scandisk with a boot floppy instead of Windows? You might be able to complete the full run, and mark the bad sector.
Posted: 2002-12-07 02:28pm
by Sea Skimmer
My 30 gig drive takes about two hours generally
Posted: 2002-12-07 03:14pm
by The Yosemite Bear
So what should I do with two 80 gig drives....
Posted: 2002-12-07 03:43pm
by Sea Skimmer
THe Yosemite Bear wrote:So what should I do with two 80 gig drives....
Set to defrag, go on vacation
Posted: 2002-12-07 04:00pm
by HemlockGrey
Odd. My one 40 Gig shouldn't seem to take that long, but the defrag kept restarting.
Posted: 2002-12-08 12:05am
by Enlightenment
You guys are using Win9X/ME, I take it?
One of the big advantages of Win2K/XP's defragger is that it doesn't need to restart every time something is written to the filesystem. It'll just keep on going no matter what else the system is doing.
Win2K and XP also support the NTFS filesystem, which doesn't fragment at anywhere near the same rate as FAT--and it generally doesn't need to be scandisked after (rare) lockups either.