Re: Perfect Disk offline defrag pass is SLOW!!!

From: Unknown (Unknown_at_Somewhere.Kom)
Date: 07/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 14:05:39 GMT

If defragging weekly and it takes that long something is wrong. Something may
be interrupting the defrag operation. Try this trick. Start the defrag and
then click the start button and let it sit or, run defrag in safe mode..
"JP" <jpilgrim@(NOSPAM)bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:BSxKc.6163$GT3.3470@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> Last night I performed an offine defrag pass on C:, and it took 24 minutes
> to analyze and another 29 minutes to defragment the page file, master file
> tables, and directories. The total time of the pass was 53 minutes. Is this
> normal? If not, how can I speed it up? Any comments would be appreciated!
>
> FYI:
> RAM: 512MB
> pagefile.sys: 766MB
> Proc. Spd.: 733MHz
> Drive type: FAT32
>
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> JP
> jpilgrim@(NOSPAM)bellsouth.net
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