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when defraggin my D drive, it reaches about 80% complete in 5-10 mins,
then sits at 80% for like half an hour... 100% cpu usage, no audible
disk access.... ...? this is with win2K sp4, dualPIII-550, WD800JB,
UDMA-33 motherboard (yuk). about 50-60,000 files, 47GB of data. D drive
has 1GB swap file... but i wouldn't have thought that would matter
considering defrag doesn't touch swap...? any reason why it pauses like
this...?

Paul Gunson scribbled:
> when defraggin my D drive, it reaches about 80% complete in 5-10 mins,
> then sits at 80% for like half an hour... 100% cpu usage, no audible
> disk access.... ...? this is with win2K sp4, dualPIII-550, WD800JB,
> UDMA-33 motherboard (yuk). about 50-60,000 files, 47GB of data. D
> drive has 1GB swap file... but i wouldn't have thought that would
> matter considering defrag doesn't touch swap...? any reason why it
> pauses like this...?

Time to run ChkDsk. (or is it still called Scandisk in win2K)

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Max Burke wrote:
> Look in Event viewer/system....

thanks: 0KB bad sectors...

Charlie G wrote:
> If you have such disks, have a look at this years selection - if not, have
> patience, & I'll see if I can find what it was - IIRC, it suggested this is
> a known fault (but then my memory is not without fault, so......).

uh oh... i just scanned my other disk, C drive the OS disk, it has 4KB
bad sectors its a 4 yr old 20GB IBM-GXP. roughly how long b4 i can
expect it to poo itself or is that really guesswork....? should i stop
using it or just not store important files on it...?