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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (2991)	4/18/1999 5:22:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Skeeter, Hi. I've run into slow defragging sometimes when the drive really doesn't need defragging. It seems to get into a very slow-advancing loop. When the drive is more fragmented -- say 1 or 2%, it has less trouble. Never anything like nine hours, though. Perhaps your drive is almost full? wily

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (2991)	4/18/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: Guy Gadois	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Did you shut down all your programs before beginning to defrag including those that might be running in background? Sometimes data on HD will change and the defrag progress will stop and begin from the beginning. jon

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (2991)	4/18/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: divvie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110645

Turn off your screen saver, close all programs and run disk scan first to repair any bad sectors. I seem to recall someone saying that disk scan ran for hours. Was this you. If so, I don't know what else to try. If you get a message during the scan that says it has restarted x number of times, click om the option that says continue without nay further warnings.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (2991)	4/19/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 110645

Defrag the disk: When I ordered my present system, I had them include Norton Systemworks, but I didn't install it right away. Anyway, one night my system started defragging by itself (scheduled task) and seemed to go on forever. Since it didn't interfere with my sleep, I paid no attention to it. After installing Norton's stuff, I ran the defrag utility, expecting it to take quite some time to run. It finished in about ten minutes. Besides speed, it allows some useful options such as sorting filenames, and placing files and directories where you want them. I'm not trying to plug the Systemworks package, but between finding and fixing system quirks, the speedy and convenient utilities, and the interesting 'monitors' you can put on your system, I couldn't imagine trying to keep things running smoothly without it. I think they charged me about $40 for it. Hope this helps. PW.