Mental note to self

[Mousebaby]

When defragging a 500GB hard drive, start waaaaaaaaaaaay early in the morning! This thing has been running 7 hrs! I thought something was wrong but the HP guy told me nope that's the norm, that's a huge hard drive!

 

[JEB]

I partition hdds into smaller volumes.
1 for OS, 1 for programs, and others for my stuff, pic etc. Whatever makes sense.
Then you only need to defrag the volumes that go thru a lot of writing-deleting.

 

[Mousebaby]

I partition hdds into smaller volumes.
1 for OS, 1 for programs, and others for my stuff, pic etc. Whatever makes sense.
Then you only need to defrag the volumes that go thru a lot of writing-deleting.

That would work great if I knew the first thing about doing that!

 

[huntr1]

That would work great if I knew the first thing about doing that!

 

[GWguy]

That would work great if I knew the first thing about doing that!

Piece o' cake!

Right-click on My Computer, select Manage. Toward the bottom will be Disk Management. You can re-partition, format, change drive letters, etc..... this is where you can also create mirrored drives.

WARNING! any attempt to repartition a working drive will result in the loss of all data!! Back it all up first. Repartitioning of drive 0 will wipe out your OS and you will not be able to boot. All this is best done on a drive other than Drive 0.

 

[mainman]

Piece o' cake!

Right-click on My Computer, select Manage. Toward the bottom will be Disk Management. You can re-partition, format, change drive letters, etc.....

WARNING! any attempt to repartition a working drive will result in the loss of all data!! Back it all up first. Repartitioning of drive 0 will wipe out your OS and you will not be able to boot. All this is best done on a drive other than Drive 0.

Of course there is software that can be purchased relatively inexpensive to manage drives on the fly... w/o losing data...

 

[BS Gal]

Piece o' cake!

Right-click on My Computer, select Manage. Toward the bottom will be Disk Management. You can re-partition, format, change drive letters, etc..... this is where you can also create mirrored drives.

WARNING! any attempt to repartition a working drive will result in the loss of all data!! Back it all up first. Repartitioning of drive 0 will wipe out your OS and you will not be able to boot. All this is best done on a drive other than Drive 0.

 

[GWguy]

Of course there is software that can be purchased relatively inexpensive to manage drives on the fly... w/o losing data...

Was going to mention that, but if they weren't aware of Disk Management, that would be another whole thread....

 

[GWguy]

 

[mainman]

Was going to mention that, but if they weren't aware of Disk Management, that would be another whole thread....

I was mentioning that it could in fact be done...

 

[GWguy]

I was mentioning that it could in fact be done...

Yup!

 

[mainman]

Yup!

Absolutely!

 

[PsyOps]

When defragging a 500GB hard drive, start waaaaaaaaaaaay early in the morning! This thing has been running 7 hrs! I thought something was wrong but the HP guy told me nope that's the norm, that's a huge hard drive!

Did you run your defrag in safe mode? If you have certain processes running while degragging it can really slow it down. Also, you should turn your screen saver off. I don't think it should take 7 hours to run a defrag on a 500 gig HD.

 

[Mousebaby]

Did you run your defrag in safe mode? If you have certain processes running while degragging it can really slow it down. Also, you should turn your screen saver off. I don't think it should take 7 hours to run a defrag on a 500 gig HD.

No I did not run it in safe mode, but will next time. Yes I did turn off the screen saver. I am a self taught geek and there are a lot of little things I don't know about.

Now partitioning the disk just sounds scary to me so I am not going there. Don't really need to. Don't have that much on this computer, most of my stuff is on my external.

 

[Floyd2004]

7 hours is insane. You must have a Pentium 4 processer for it to be that slow.

I can knock out a 750gig in about an hour

 

[clevalley]

Did you run your defrag in safe mode? If you have certain processes running while degragging it can really slow it down. Also, you should turn your screen saver off. I don't think it should take 7 hours to run a defrag on a 500 gig HD.

Depends on how much data is on the 500GB drive...

Is this an external drive? Reason I ask if it is USB or Firewire that could be a reason for the lag... also, if it is external why are you defraging? Typically, an external is used as a dumping ground or backup area - why would you care if it is fragmented unless you were streaming media.

I'm just curious...

 

[Mousebaby]

Depends on how much data is on the 500GB drive...

Is this an external drive? Reason I ask if it is USB or Firewire that could be a reason for the lag... also, if it is external why are you defraging? Typically, an external is used as a dumping ground or backup area - why would you care if it is fragmented unless you were streaming media.

I'm just curious...

The hard drive is on my computer, not that much on it, and I tried to defrag in safe mode and apparently in vista its a no go. My external is also 500 GB and is a firewire.

 

[PsyOps]

The hard drive is on my computer, not that much on it, and I tried to defrag in safe mode and apparently in vista its a no go. My external is also 500 GB and is a firewire.

I would still run AVG, Adaware, and Spybot in safe mode to get malware cleaned up. I would also go through your program (Add or Remove Program) and make sure nothing got installed that YOU didn't install. If you find anything you should research it to make sure it didn't put any traces in your registry that would turn around and reload the program when you reboot.

 

[Mousebaby]

I would still run AVG, Adaware, and Spybot in safe mode to get malware cleaned up. I would also go through your program (Add or Remove Program) and make sure nothing got installed that YOU didn't install. If you find anything you should research it to make sure it didn't put any traces in your registry that would turn around and reload the program when you reboot.

I did all that and also ran Hijack this, it came up clean. According to HP it is normal for it to take that long to defrag a hard drive that big. :shrug:

 

[RadioPatrol]

No I did not run it in safe mode, but will next time. Yes I did turn off the screen saver. I am a self taught geek and there are a lot of little things I don't know about.

Now partitioning the disk just sounds scary to me so I am not going there. Don't really need to. Don't have that much on this computer, most of my stuff is on my external.

Turn off Your Anti Virus .........