Defragmentation Problems

[GDW]

I have a 15gig slave drive which I use to store downloads, usually mp3s and divx files.

The drive is 95% fragmented and everytime I run XPs disk defragmentor or Nortons equivalent it takes 10 hours to sort out 4% of it! I usually just give up as Im not convinced of the safety of leaving Athlons running 24/7 on full load.

Does anyone have any idea whats taking it so long to defrag? My guess its because of the size of the divx files

Id appreciate any feedback


Grandad

 

[S-Gray]

Whats your OS?

I had this ytpe of problem when i was on Win98, it would only get to about 5% then it would restart... from what i seen on that [.tv] Channel before it died (Chips? wa sthe name i think) someone posted this question and they said that if you close all your programs in Task Manager , that is *supposed* to cure it

 

[lovedaddy]

NTFS? Cos ive seen NTFS be a total BITCH for trying to defrag. It almost requires 40-50% of the drive to be free in order to actually work.

 

[GDW]

Oops should have said.....Windows XP Prof and yes its NTFS