It eventually dropped from 174 hours to 50 minutes, then completed the job. Now trying the fancier job on my FSX files. Gerry Winskill Peter Dodds wrote:
I've always assumed that if I stop it prematurely (which is quite safe by the way) it would start all over again when I restart it. I had a laptop once that always restarted a defrag every 10 minutes or so because "new data has been written to disk". I never found out what caused it and I never defragged that drive! (because I couldn't). Peter