How many passes before defrag finishes?

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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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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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2012-12-03T22:25:00+00:00

mine actually is on pass 9 now after 2 hours..now i wonder how many passes it will still take for i saw somebody said the highest is 8..whew
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Anonymous

2012-11-02T07:08:04+00:00

Doing my defrag right now and it's on its 12th defrag. Wanted to see how bad it could go!
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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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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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