Disk Defragmenter might take from several minutes to a few hours to finish, depending on the size and degree of fragmentation of your hard disk. You can still use your computer during the defragmentation process. Microsoft never specifically says, because Windows auto-detects the needed settings. Windows Optimizing your drives can help your PC run smoother and boot up faster.
To optimize them: Select the search bar on the taskbar and enter defrag. Select Defragment and Optimize Drives. Right click on cmd. A message will come up asking if you want to check the disk on the next restart. Answer 'Y'. Reboot and the check disk will run before Windows starts up. This check will check the file system as well as the physical disk surface.
This scan can take a long time, depending on the size of your hard drive. Vista's defragmenter was unusually slow except when their was nothing to do maybe a long defrag happened when you did not notice before the quick defrags. If the drive is in bad shape but has replaced all the bad sectors that exist at that moment with spares the chkdsk will pass not that we seem to be looking at the results Defragmenting a defective hard drive would be even worse for a bad hard drive.
You would have to save and post the log if you want me to look at it there are several logs, but the normal one will do to start with. I think it is a bit hasty to suspect a defective drive on the basis of a 45 minute defrag on an eight year old Vista machine.
Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. My pc's drive is optimizing since 2 hours. How long does it take? My drive's storage is 1 tb and I use windows And can i stop this work while it is running?
And can I disable this work for permanent and if I do so, will it harm my pc? If your computer has a hard drive 1 TB in size, 2 hours is within reason for a rpm hard drive. A rpm hard drive could take longer. Windows 10 Defrag does a very good job left on Automatic. Sign up to join this community.
The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Hi Carol, optimizing your disk can take a long time initially, then you should have it on a schedule after that. While is does seem to be slow at the moment, it could finish in 5 minutes or 5 days, there is no way to tell.
How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Rohn MVP. Go to the start menu and search for defragment. In the Optimize Drives dialog as you select the drive, it will show the plan for each drive. You are right, there is not much you can do to speed up the process. One thing is to "decrapify" your drive.
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