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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2016-09-01T21:36:09+00:00

Two things: There is absolutely no reason to defrag a drive that's reported as 2% fragmented, and although I can't account for the continually odd behavior of the Windows "optimizer," when you have a relatively small amount of free space, the process will always take longer than you think it should.
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Anonymous

2016-10-06T13:30:11+00:00

I'm on pass 15 80% right now!
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Anonymous

2016-10-25T19:48:31+00:00

10 for me. Windows 7 pro on a 246GB Solid State hard drive.
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Anonymous

2016-10-26T09:26:29+00:00

I think took me 13 passes for a 500GB disk.

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