Another Question on Defrag Time

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I posted a message yesterday about my upgrade to Windows
XP from ME. My defrag time has been long, but yesterday
it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes. Should I just leave it
alone or could there be a problem?

Thanks in advance,

Janine

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Leave it alone and it will come home dragging its fragments behind it.
(just punning on a nursery rhyme) Installations fragment a hard drive
beyond belief. Every defrag I have done after an installation or upgrade
has taken many times longer than routine defrags. This is normal.

BTW, it does no harm to interrupt a defrag session. The defragger will
complete its current step and then close. Just don't abruptly turn off the
power. The best way to defrag is to start it before you go to bed and just
let it do its thing.

"Janine" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:290601c4aaf3$341283e0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>I posted a message yesterday about my upgrade to Windows
> XP from ME. My defrag time has been long, but yesterday
> it took me 1 hour and 45 minutes. Should I just leave it
> alone or could there be a problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Janine