Speeding up Defrag

[hutch]

you can help yourself in a couple ways - ie
1/
first - follow this - ie
defragmentation needs 15% free space to run and it is
good idea to get in habit of 'routine of running'
chkdsk.exe/checkdisk/first
then defrag
then delete temp files and cookies
and should keep your disk clean and org'd
2/
a/
consider 'splitting the pagefile' or
'having one for ea hdd' - ie
How to Configure Paging Files for Optimization and
Recovery in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/search/preview.aspx?
scid=kb;en-us;Q314482
b/
HOW TO: Set Performance Options in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;
[LN];Q308417
and
take it fr there

hth
God Bless
hutch


>-----Original Message-----
>This is basically normal. Defragmentation can take a
>LONG time depending on how fragmented the drive is, the
>amount of RAM on the system, the speed of the hard
>drives, and the computer in general (not always in that
>exact order).
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>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am running XP on a custom built machine with 256mb of
>>SDRAM and a P3 500mhz cpu. I have two WD 40GB drives
>>divided into two partitions each. I'm using NTFS file
>>system instead of FAT32.
>>The problem has to do with defraging the hard drives.
>It
>>takes forever. I have XP on the first partition of
>drive
>>C (10gb used with 8.5gb free 18.5 total space). It can
>>take up to three hours to defrag this partition us the
>Ms
>>app. I have had the same results using SpeedDisk from
>>Norton.
>>Is there anyway to speed up the process. When I run
the
>>defrag app I unload evrything except the Ms processes.
>>Would reformating my prime Hard drive and using FAT 32
>>instead of NTFS help??
>>.
>>
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