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Sat 6 Mar, 2004 06:56 pm
I defrag my drive often, and a lot of times it gets stuck at about %2-%3.
I've found out if I; pause the defrag, surf the web, shut down all programs besides Explorer and the defrager and resume defrag it works fine.
I will tell you before I defrag I; clear my IE and Mozilla histories, run a "cookie cruncher", and do a disk cleanup.
What's going on here. Am I simply buying time, or am I somehow altering my HD?
This has been bugging me to no end!
Defragging is like organizing a warehouse.
Almost any computer activity (even stuff in the background) can write to teh disk.
That's like dumping boxes all over the warehouse that's being organized (defragged).
Closing all the programs is what normally gets it through when the defrag is hanging.
Is there something else to it that I didn't pick up on?
Craven de Kere wrote:Defragging is like organizing a warehouse.
Almost any computer activity (even stuff in the background) can write to teh disk.
That's like dumping boxes all over the warehouse that's being organized (defragged).
Closing all the programs is what normally gets it through when the defrag is hanging.
Is there something else to it that I didn't pick up on?
Yes.
Maybe I'm not being clear. I shut down all the programs BEFORE defragging the 1st time.
The defrag hangs up.
I pause the defrag, surf the web for a few minutes, close down the programs and resume the defrag.
Then the defrag finishes.
Ok, I was wondering if the surfing part was critical.
Tough one. If the surfing is really a factor (it might be hard to isolate) it might have to do with cache.
Have you run disk repair utilities?
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