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
    2012-03-17T07:07:06+00:00

    Thanks for the info. Mine is going through pass 6 right now and is moving right along compared to earlier passes. Will look into AUSLOGICS

    bad idea, if you look at the actual tests you find that defrag voodoo is defrag voodoo, it takes X amount of time to move data, you can only be so clever.

    http://www.maximumpc.com/article/the_disk_defrag_difference

    that is an actual comparison where they bothered to do  actual tests..and guess what, almost no difference at all;)  just stick with the microsoft one since it knows what its doing.

    you can always be faster, at the cost of being less thorough.

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-03-17T06:41:04+00:00

    Mine just ran through 500 GB in 16 passes.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-01-18T21:04:49+00:00

    Took 3 hrs. 12 mins and 9 passes. 121 Gb free on 500 Gb drive, 64 bit Gateway Duo Processor SU7300.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-01-10T16:34:13+00:00

    I have a 300GB Harddrive running Windows 7. The number of passes and speed of the passes is determined by the amount of fragmented data. I usually defrag once a month and its usually 3-5 percent. It only took a few passes and finished in under an hour. If defrag takes super long, its because your computer needs it super bad.

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