Another Question on Defrag Time. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics () 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...

extra turned off like they should be for proper 'in windows' defragging - then defrag time is very fast anyway only taking minutes (for me anyway) ..and to restore an image takes about 2 minutes as you noticed as well, and so it's about the same time span...

of fragmentation is also a factor in the time. The first time I used the ME defrag (after removing Diskeeper), it took over an hour. The next time was about 20 minutes, but it has been about 10 minutes since. "Shane" wrote in message news:%23DhyaAAbFHA.3488...

wrote: > My understanding from the engineers is defragging is not necessary. >> Every time you write to the SD card the data on the card is written > is re-written completely. So in essence your SD is defragged every >time you write to it. Your...

Raid 0 I thinks it needs to be defragged after every time I install something. It's like having them in RAID 0 causes the files to be fragmented. The whole point of using RAID 0 was to increase my transfer rates. I don't want to defrag them and find out...

if it says no need to defragment at this time, I should it anyway. Otis. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () Hi, What is a good schedule to defragment. A friend says even if it says no need to defragment at this time, I should it...

to run these regularly with XP? >>CHKDSK is not necessary to be run regularly on NTFS drives. But you >should run Defrag from time to time. You can also this from the Start >Menu. >>> Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers () sorry...

on the slaved drive? >> Galen Got a reading comprehension problem? The OP wrote and I quote: "i do a scan disk &defrag in safe mode 1x a week" To the OP: did you do a clean up before the scan disk and defrag? How full is your disk drive? Alias...

was a problem while defragmenting. >>>> Most of the time, hard drives don't go out like lightbulbs -- >> instead, they develop some bad spots. If these spots are >> occupied by rarely used files or even free space, it may take a >> very long time before...

As far as defrag times in XP the scan and defrag times are under 5 minutes for a 80 drive. GOD LOVES CANADA Diskeeper is the best defrag utility for Win NT4, Win 2000, Win XP. Very reliable, never data loss, and secure. °¤o,¸¸¸,o¤°`°¤o \\// o¤°...