Defrag lasting over 2 days???

I stopped it at 70% on what was going into the 3rd day.

Physicals:

160GB EIDE HD
P4 2.8Ghz machine.
Windows ME

Now, in all fairness, the drive had to be severly *fragged* as it's been on
the wrong controller for a few years (32-bit versus 48-bit or something).

Sharing, is caring.

My question is, will I ever get a job?

 

Something is running in the background re-starting defrag.Boot to
Safemode and run defrag from there and or,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/house.html

HTH

 

Failed to mention, that *was* safe mode. noshit.

 

I think this guy already has ME but I am running Win98se and went and
downloaded the ME defrager. Zoom Zoom very fast and it will run from
winzip. No need to go through all the hoopla on the download page.
Anyway Thanks I like it.

 

if you did not already do so...
clear your internet cache, delete tmp files and empty your recycle bin etc

 

If I was in your position, I would go the the hard drive manufacture's
website and see if they have a drive tester to download. 26 hours is my
record for a defrag... If the HDD doesn't have one, search Google for a
hard drive fitness tester... I'd be worried the HD may be in trouble??

I have heard good things about http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm - but
haven't had the cash to try it myself... maybe somebody else here has?

NotMe

 

Not if there is no/hardly any, free space left on the drive.

 

Nice one

Made me think as well that his defrag.exe may be damaged and or the
scandisk.log

for defrag.exe
start/run and type sfc and extract a new copy

For scandisk.log delete and re-run scandisk

 

Use Diskeeper or Diskeeper Lite(the freeware version)
It should defrag the HDD in a few minutes.It isn't affected by other
programs running.