how long should my computer take to defrag?

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

36:27:02.014

 

[Andrizzle 10+ year member]

over 9000 hours

 

[AllenH427 10+ year member]

When you are defragging, you don't even want to touch your computer. You don't want anything to cache that would make defragging pointless. Turn off everything you can, programs, antivirus... etc, and let it run over night. I does take hours though, so be patient.

 

[Splazy]

I've never waited for a harddrive to defrag.. I always say i'm going to and cancel 20 min later..

I've also never had a problem with a harddrive in my entire life.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

78

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

Well when gta iv starts getting choppy and crashing after a month, you have to uninstall it, defrag your computer, install new drivers, and reinstall. Really, really bad ported game. Otherwise it will run choppy because it annihilates hard drives

been defragging for 3hr 15 minutes as of now, im about to say **** it

 

[kubie 10+ year member]

Use this defragger instead http://www.iobit.com/iobitsmartdefrag.html. It does a better job than the windows defragger and is faster. Also run a disk cleanup first before defrag.

Whats your PC specs? How often do you defrag? you should have it auto timed for once a week.

 

[bw_audio 10+ year member]

..

 

[SocMunky 10+ year member]

Take all the **** off of it next time before you start. Sped up my defrag times drastically. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[ThatChevyGuy 5,000+ posts]

No **** on this one, its almost new.

 

[Jmac 10+ year member]

Vista is set to defrag on a schedule by default; most manufacturer's set it to defrag on a nightly or weekly basis, usually starting at 3 am. If you leave your computer on the night it's set to defrag, it should be done by the time you wake up (unless you happen to wake up at 6 am).

Defragmenting barely helps performance on modern OSes anyways, so I'm not sure why you're worrying so much about it ...

 

[lol_j00_mad 10+ year member]

boot in safe mode then defrag from there.........this assures no programs are running in background and causing it to start over

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

http://kessels.biz/JkDefrag/