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
    2012-10-29T18:37:08+00:00

    What happens if we stop the operation? Does it help at all or not?

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-10-29T18:19:48+00:00

    If you click the tell me more at the top it says it may take "Several minutes to a few hours".

    Mine is at pass 9 after 4 days.

    Must be another example of the Microsoft clock.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-10-17T12:49:33+00:00

    I'm going through the defrag process for the first time on my laptop. 

    I purchased it new on 23rd August 2012

    installed the must have programmes for me was going to defrag next time I powered up,

    little did I know that I would be taken ill and would not be able to use the laptop till 15 October 2012 at 2pm

    The first thig I did was to start the defrag programme it's still running some 48 hours later and Defrag is now on pass 7:32% consolidated I have a 300GB drive that has 238.9 GB free

    can anyone suggest how much longer the defrag will take?

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-08-17T08:58:16+00:00

    LOL!

        I've got an SSD and I read everything about it first, that being the most important, I defrag my HDD secondary drives regularly though. :) Still never had more than 2 real passes on my caviars when defragging, sometimes it goes to about 8 or so, but the last 6 passes take a total of 1 second altogether.

        Still curious as to why some peoples drives take so long and so many passes... Maybe an outdated setup... But then the wait should be no surprise.  Figuring out what determines the amount of passes is more or less why I'm following this thread.

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