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
    2013-03-19T01:23:24+00:00

    about the same on mine was wondering how many there would be until it finished they were done quite fast which was brilliant

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-03-18T01:00:56+00:00

    I use Windows 8, and my defrag went up to 10 passes. It was the first time I used the defrag on this computer, so I'm not sure if it goes higher or not. It didn't take that long either. It ran for, like, 45-60 minutes.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T09:22:46+00:00

    http://www.winhelp.us/index.php/windows/enhancing-windows-performance.html/set-paging-file-to-a-fixed-size-in-windows.html

    Setting a  fixed pagefile and and having it contiguous ( in one Block ) can be difficult where the free disk space is less than 50%. Achieving may also be more difficult if you rely on the Windows provided defragmenter to defragment.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-02-19T09:07:30+00:00

    I've had 37 passes in about half an hour, it seems like it could go up to anything.

    And Gerry, yes good point. I wasn't multi-tasking and unfortunately don't understand "windows managed pagefile or a fixed size pagefile".

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