How many passes before defrag finishes?

Anonymous
2010-06-28T19:50:57+00:00

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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
    2016-06-11T19:39:10+00:00

    You've seen as high as 7 huh?Mine never does less than 9. I've seen as high as 20

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-06-09T05:16:37+00:00

    It all depends on a number of factors.

    1. Size of the drive.
    2. Amount of data on the drive.
    3. What sort of data you have on the drive.
    4. How often you use the drive.
    5. How often you defrag/optimize it.

    I've got a 1T external drive that I was using for ages on an old system, about 3/4 full, and I use it constantly.  I use it with a P2P program where I both share and download files.  (I live in China - there's no way I'm going to sit around watching Chinese television, so I download my favorite shows from back home (US) that are blocked by Chinese censorship from streaming online).  Because of that it gets fragmented on a continuous basis.

    I just added it to my Win10 system, and for the heck of it I ran the optimization and it is now at 3% of the 3rd pass.... and it's been literally 3 days.

    Obviously this isn't a drive I'm going to have auto optimized once it's fully integrated into this system.

    I'm pretty a-al about my drive setup and have a drive strictly for the system, one for program installation and several for data (documents, photos, videos).  I optimize them all differently.

    If you've never optimized, the first time is going to take a while.  Don't take that as a sign of how long it will always take, then remove optimization completely.  Once it is optimized, the weekly optimizations will keep it all nice and tidy for you and won't take long (for most people in a normal use situation).

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-27T03:27:07+00:00

    I've also seen 10 Passes in Windows 7.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-05-26T15:17:03+00:00

    Yes! That's why I thought to defrag it, because it takes ages just to copy something from there to my internal HD. I never knew I was supposed to defrag regularly. I've wanted to free up space for a while, but never had time to do it. I bought a larger HD and everything, but at this point it would take months to free up space because it's running so slow...

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