Defragmentation Problems...

[Xaneden]

Hey Guys,
I have a 300gb Maxtor OneTouch II external HDD, and decided at about 1:30am this morning to defrag it. I was surprised at how slow it was at that point, but nevertheless left it on whilst I went to sleep.

We are now at 7pm, and the defragmentation is still running. It is still marked at 1% Moving File insert name, and seemingly hasn't done much. In the last 1/2 hour it changed from defragmenting a thumbs.db file, and is now defragmenting a school document. Should a small thumbs.db file take over 2 hours!??!

I have also noticed, that when it first started, the 'Estimated disk usage after defragmentation' bar had a fairly substantial amount of red lines (and wasn't much different from the bar showing the original usage), signalling that they would remain fragmented. Now, it is only blue with one or 2 small red lines and a few white gaps. Does this mean its working?

I am going to give it a couple of more hours, but if it doesn't stop then, is it safe to end a defragmentation?


Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[BenW]

Try another app?

I use diskeeper, does my 3 partitions on a 160GB in about 2 mins

[Xaneden]

Well I would consider that, but the problem is my defragmentation is already underway . Is it safe to just stop it? And does anyone know why a small 25kb file would be taking 1/2 hour to defragment?

By the way, 15 minutes on, and that small school document is still defragging

[Xaneden]

Christ almighty Pyle, that is one fragmented HDD!



By the way guys, thanks for your help, but 2 minutes ago.....

DEFRAGMENTATION FINISHED!

I thought it would never end

[Xaneden]

49% full (140 something GB), its ridiculously long.

Its connected on USB 2, I don't see why it is bottleneck'd or just so downright slow.