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
    2011-11-30T19:40:54+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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  2. Anonymous
    2011-10-01T04:32:47+00:00

    I have a 750 gig HD, It's relatively new with about 100 gig's used and it completed in 6 passes. I believe the number of passes goes up the more fragmented and filled up the volume is. If you pass 10-20 you should probably De-fragment more often and make some more space.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-09-07T20:05:18+00:00

    My computer is defraging now and it is on pass 61 so im almost positive it has to do with the amount of memory in your computer.

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  4. Anonymous
    2011-08-28T10:26:58+00:00

    How much free disk space does the partition  have and how large is the partition? Did you run Disk CleanUp or cCleaner before you started?

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