It is not uncommon for the defragmentation process to crawl like a snail first time round. I had to leave our Server's defrag running overnight on the system drive, and it only has a 10GB drive. The other data drives went through in less than an hour. George. -----Original Message----- From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Lingard Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:26 PM To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bcab] Re: The latest version of Diskkeeper is taking ages to defragment a 16GB hard drive, should it take this long? Ottawa Canada Hi Alexander: Good point about how you would know when the defragment is finished running without Super Nova running. If you haven't let defrag run to completion in a long time, I suppose your drive may be badly fragmented, but don't know. Good luck. Brian Brian K. Lingard email: b.lingard@xxxxxxxxxxxx Skype: ve3yiab2ji15 tel: +1 (613) 247-0665 New York NY Tel +1 (646) 797-2862 FAX +1 (613) 247-9998 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.9/1155 - Release Date: 27/11/2007 8:30 PM *** BCAB List administration *** If you wish to unsubscribe, set vacation,, request a digest or carry out routine maintenance on your subscription to the list then go to: http://www.bcab.org.uk/mailing-list.html Alternatively, send an email to bcab-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word faqin the subject line. You'll receive an email with advice on managing your subscription to the list. If you wish to discuss the administration of the list then contact: bcab-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx *** BCAB List administration *** If you wish to unsubscribe, set vacation,, request a digest or carry out routine maintenance on your subscription to the list then go to: http://www.bcab.org.uk/mailing-list.html Alternatively, send an email to bcab-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word faqin the subject line. You'll receive an email with advice on managing your subscription to the list. If you wish to discuss the administration of the list then contact: bcab-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx