[bcab] Re: The latest version of Diskkeeper is taking ages to defragment a 16GB hard drive, should it take this long?

Echo what Phil is saying, but, also, have you got enough free space on the disc. They recommend 15 percent. Also, make sure you are not reading the free space figure rather than the amount to be defragged. Check properties in the local disc. Finally, I've got disc keeper set to automatic and I just forget it. After your E-Mail, went back to check it and hardly anything that was not defragged. They suggest that you analyse your disc before a manual defrag and only defrag if recommended. 

Tom
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Subject: [bcab] Re: The latest version of Diskkeeper is taking ages to defragment a 16GB hard drive, should it take this long? 



Hi Alexander,

Bear in mind that I don't have specific experience of Disk keeper.
Defragmentation in general, though, can be affected by other processes running in the background on your system while the defrag is in progress.
Also, I am used to seeing the percentage increase rather than the opposite. i.e. One normally sees the percentage of the disk which has already been defragmented rather than the percentage still to be defragmented. It is worth checking this point.
Sometimes, files are created or changed by background processes while the defrag is running which causes the defrag to return to the area on the disk where the file resides in order to defragment it and then continues again from that point. This means that work already done by the defragmenter needs to be covered again from the point where the file was place in order to eliminate any gaps between files which may have been generated.
Where a file is changed periodically while the defrag is in progress, this can lead to an infinite loop in the defragmentation process.
I suggest that you check again to see if there are any programs running in the background which might possibly cause this effect. 

Regards,


Phil Medway

ICT accessibility developer

Deployment team

Core ICT

Oxfordshire County Council


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Sent: 26 November 2007 21:20
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Subject: [bcab] The latest version of Diskkeeper is taking ages to
defragment a 16GB hard drive, should it take this long?


Hi all,

As a result of discussions on the Access-uk list some months ago, I
purchased  the program Diskkeeper to defragment my split hard drive on my
Acer laptop.  I seem to be having problems setting Diskkeeper up to
automatically defragment my C: partition which is the part that has the most 
files on it.

I tried setting Diskkeeper to defragment again today, and, even though I
believe I set it to manual defragmentation rather than automatic, it seems
to have only got from 35% to 32% after defragmenting for 3 or 4 hours, for
the majority of which, I turned off my Supernova screen reading and
magnification program.
My question is, does anyone know why this defragmentation is taking as long 
as it is?
Please note that I know defragmentation can take some lengthy periods, but I 
would have thought the chances were that with my hard drive being split in
two, defragmenting would get to lower than 32% in the time I have had it
running.

Thank you all in advance for your answers  to my question, and any advice
you can give me on this issue.


Alexander Shannon

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