How long for disc defrag


  1. 2414ginger
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    How long for disc defrag


    Hi all
    I must admit to not having defraged my desktop before in 4 years, HP Pavilion by the way.
    And i am using Windows built inn defragmenter. I have 250 GB free space out of 450 GB
    I decided after several tries to defrag the C drive, and it seeming to stop at 19% analyzed, that I needed more patience, it took 6 hours!!!!! over Sat night.
    OK Sun morn 7am, so its telling me that I am 26% fragmented, so I click on defrag, now its analyzing again, is this normal?
    Anyway its now almost 3pm on WEDNESDAY, its 36% consolidated on pass 12.

    I have 2 questions,
    How many more passes will there be? and how much longer can it take?

    Many thanks for anyone who can offer me hope.
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  3. Ztruker
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    Try booting to Safe Mode and doing the defrag there.
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  4. Berton
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Mac OS X 10.10, Linux Mint 17, Windows 10 Pro TP
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    It can help to turn off the power-saving features such as disk shutdown, sleep, hibernation, etc., lets the defrag run without interruption.
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  6. strollin
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    W10 Pro desktop, W11 laptop, W11 Pro tablet (all 64-bit)
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    You will never recover the time you are spending trying to defrag your drive. You may see a very small increase in file access performance but the time wasted during the defrag will completely negate that.

    I would try doing a chkdsk on your drive to see if it has other issues though.
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