How long should it take to defrag my computer?

Question

dell laptop xp w/50gigs

its been running real slowly so i thought defrag might help. the windows defrags says its not needed,but i try anyways......and it seems to get stuck and not do anything ...is this normal or does it just take a long time?

thx

Answer 1

My computer usually takes about a 1/2 hour

Answer 2

Defragmenting doesn't speed up your computer.

Consider buying a RAM or processor upgrade.

Answer 3

defragmenting will improve your hard drive access time, slightly. if you want a performance boost put in more RAM and upgrade the CPU...

Answer 4

It will take around 3hrs max to defragment all your drives...

It wont get struck...

Just wait for couple of hours... DONE!!! :)

Answer 5

it takes a real long time, and sometimes its useless. If its running slow you should check for viruses and also go to your task manager and turn off some of the programs/tasks that are running. They can eat up a lot of memory that your computer needs to function.

Answer 6

Windows pretty much sucks and there are way to many variables to figure to answer this question...  Like available free space on the hard drive number of fragmented files and there size.  There are a number of free defrag programs you can use.  But my personal favorite is O&O defrag 10.  It is not free but there is a thirty day trial.  I suggest give it a shot.

Answer 7

It's difficult to predict the time for a defragmentation run to complete since it depends on a number of factors such as the extent of fragmentation, number of files, available disk space, available system resources and disk activity, the quality i.e. thoroughness of a defrag, the defragmenter's algorithms etc. It can range anywhere from a few minutes for very light fragmentation to many hours for heavy fragmentation.

If you want a fully automatic background defrag solution so that the time to complete a defrag becomes irrelevant, you can always download the free 30-day trial version of Diskeeper 2008 for evaluation.

Hope this helps.

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Diskeeper Corporation

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