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
    2011-12-01T06:09:05+00:00

    good! try to run a disk scan you find it right clicking c and to tools it does fix things

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-12-01T05:56:22+00:00

    defragments processed 10 timesin one hour after iolio mechanic program creans registery and mcafee fire wall won't work afterwarcs so i have to system restore to closest restore then it is fine Iolio mechanic service suggests to run at windows EX service pack 2 even though i have windows sercive pack 1 instarted in my windoes 7 89 x service pack 1

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-11-30T19:40:54+00:00

    8 hours!! holy shiz thats along time. Took around 15 mins with 12 passes on 2 1tb drives in a striped raid array, having never defraged in aout 2 yrs

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-10-17T05:11:58+00:00

    LOL! I have a 500GB drive full at 300GB used and it went to 7 passes, took 3 minutes.

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