Using Power Defragmenter + Contig for vista.

Started it around ~9AM today. Its still going now at 23:30. Gonna have to turn the comp off and let it resume tomorrow!

Just curious what other peoples record defrag times are.

(Yeah Im aware something is probably up with my comp (nothing new there) last time I defragged it only took 30-45 mins, but that was a while ago!)

Its usually something writing intermittently to the HD, might be part of windows or a program. The defrag starts from square one every time it detects something else changing whats on there.

Its usually something writing intermittently to the HD, might be part of windows or a program. The defrag starts from square one every time it detects something else changing whats on there.

Yeah... in Windows 98 perhaps.

It will slow down on hd access, however doesnt reset like the 98 defragmenter did.

Hmm, I ended up downloading Auslogics Disk Defragmentor last night and it finished the defrag in like 15 mins.

Contig/Power Defrag were always quite fast etc in the past, which suggests either there is something up with the hardware configuration since the mobo swap, or maybe something to do with Vista SP1 and contig (It wasnt until I installed SP1 that I was getting decent HDD transfer speeds on my SATA drives)? The program was scanning fast, but taking a couple of secs each time it found a fragment.

Not yet. I am thinking that once uni is out the way with, Ill shift any leftover files to my storage HDD and then just reformat and reinstall windows on this HDD. I think the comps slower running lately is likely due to the mobo switch, even though all the drivers were installed correctly

Will make a note of it though. I used disk cleanup and got rid of about 1.5gb of junk heh

JKDefrag is the daddy!

http://www.kessels.com/JkDefrag/

Free and so configurable.