Disk Defragment

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

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hardwareworld is not necessarily kazaa related.

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

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?

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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?

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around 24 hours probably... maybe 30.

i think that depends how fast your computer is

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.

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

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no... thats WAY to fast.

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

why wanna know it?? just try it!

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. :)

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 :D website

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