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
    2013-12-21T16:09:25+00:00

    Sooo...you want to say that my i7 2600k @ 3.4-4.0GHz with 8GB RAM 1333 OC @ 1600MHz is choking something ? I don't think so. After defrag no problems...weird coincidence or .... ? I even re-installed OS 3-4 months ago, clearing my PC every day with CCleaner, once per month of two I fully scan my PC for viruses with Anti-Malwarebytes program which does its work pretty good.

    Sooo...coincidence ? Is it a fact that you are trying to state about HDD's reading speed or just a theory that you learned from reading somewhere or got in school told by teacher that hadn't doubts about things and has not tried to make sure if his theory is correct ?

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-08-05T06:39:44+00:00

    I have a full 2tb external hard drive defraged in about 2 hours finished after the 2nd pass

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-12-13T01:44:51+00:00

    mine is 500gb hdd and fragmentation is around 6%gb of where 400gb+ is already used..just thankful its finish now..it took me around 8 hours to finish defragmenting it in different times by recontinuing the process since it takes too long, i think it took around 20-25 passes..whew

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

    Mine just ran through 500 GB in 16 passes.

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