re: ADD?Replace 12Gig Drive. Dell 450MH
Friday, January 16, 2004 at 6:36 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Gerry Kroll
(1986 messages posted)
The key to cutting down Defrag time is to do it often. You need to defrag immediately
after the system has been set up for the first time. Depending on how much activity
there is, you might need to run defrag every two weeks. I usually tell my clients
to do it monthly.
When you defrag, do not select the option to rearrange program files. This
is where most of the time is lost.
On Thursday, January 15, 2004 at 7:36 pm, Limey wrote:
>Thanks! Good info on the max size: I had no idea. I have previously done a great
>deal of axe work on all such files and folders. Taking off all image files was helpful,
>but I still have only a Gig to play with, and since I had started to do some audio
>CD recording, that doesn't go very far. Speaking of max size: my macine takes 4
hours
>to defrag. A 30 +gig would, presumably, take a day. (Not only that but it has disrupted
>Norton NAV files on 4 occasions, even though NAV is not running).
>How is it possible to defrag a drive in a reasonable time - a 30 Gig, for example?
>Thanks for the followup!
>
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