Disk Defragment

[kAb]

Originally posted by adthomp@30 April 2003 - 03:41
How is this kazaa related???

hardwareworld is not necessarily kazaa related.

many people suggest to defrag weekly. don't worry about it, its a common procedure.

[Timz]

it would probably take me a few days to Defrag, i have a 100gb hard drive, and i havnt defraged more than a year (just havnt gotten around to it) How long do u think it would take now?

[kAb]

Originally posted by Timz@30 April 2003 - 16:57
it would probably take me a few days to Defrag, i have a 100gb hard drive, and i havnt defraged more than a year (just havnt gotten around to it) How long do u think it would take now?

around 24 hours probably... maybe 30.

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i think that depends how fast your computer is

[Schuler]

If you have a 100 gig harddrive you probably have a decent system along with it. I don't know an exact estimate but just leave your computer on overnight and defrag it.

[kAb]

Originally posted by balamm@30 April 2003 - 17:03
15 minutes to a half hour maybe?
(in XP/NT)

no... thats WAY to fast.

especially if you have movies, they frag easily and take a long time to defrag.

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why wanna know it?? just try it!

[PcH]

Whatever you do, don't use Norton Speeddisk. It takes long and I don't know why they call it that. Just defrag. in Safe Mode for the best and fastest results.

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try this website: http://www.pcpitstop.com it is a nice site that will test all important things on your pc and gives info/what to do when it's finished!!
It's a website

[imported_QuietSilence!]

it dont mater how fast ur comp is the main thing is how fast ur HD is

some tips on defarigng

first defrag all ur partishions once this is done u can keep the need to defrag to a minum by doing this

dl in kazaa to and "scrap" Or "temp" partishion after the dl is compleat move it to a partishion that is not fragmented or a "storage" partishion when u move it from 1 partishion to a nother it will defrag the file for u automaticly cus it will right it in a row as long as the partishion ur moving it to is not fragmented
so if all u use it for is too move fils from somewhere else too then it wont fragment at all

its a good idea to do this to movies as they play much better if there not fragmented
the only time u will have to defragment this "storage" partishoin is if u delet files from it as that will leve a big hole in the data but u dont have to do it every time u deleat a movie as its a big hole and the next one u move there will go too that spot first

ntfs has a sotra built in de fragmenter and u dont have to do it as often basicly it makes a good guess as to where to put a new file so it wont fragment

vary advanced servers such as sun main frames dont ever have to be defraged as they do it all dynamicly all the time