How many passes before defrag finishes?

Anonymous
2010-06-28T19:50:57+00:00

Original Title: "Defragmenting hard drive"

I am try to defrag my hard drive. It's on its 4th pass in 24 hours. How many passes does it make before it's done?

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Anonymous
2010-06-28T22:55:23+00:00

have seen as high as 7.

they seem to get faster the further along it goes.

look into using AUSLOGICS degragger instead.

faster and also has an option to move system files to the front.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-08-01T14:51:25+00:00

    It took me a grand total of 14 passes and about 8 hours with a 450gb hard drive.

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-01-16T08:55:44+00:00

    I started defragging a 2TB drive, near capacity, over 3 days ago... Its now at Pass 11: 70% done.

    I think im killing auto-defrag in W7 and going back to my 'never, ever, defrag' method. ;)

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-01-05T06:54:34+00:00

    Mine went to 9 passes, and took 25 minutes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-12-27T02:08:48+00:00

    I'm defragging mine right now and it's on its 10th pass, but it's getting faster and faster...

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