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xtom
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I defragged my laptop hard drive yesterday and ever since accessing folders is taking ages. It normally would take a second max but now it's taking about 4 seconds at least. I deleted lot's of stuff before defragging so I had 6gb free. Anyone had a similar problem? Any advice?


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um thats odd. did u try defragging again?

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Posted: 23rd May 2006 01:00
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No I'll give it a try tonight. It's driving me nuts chugging along.


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Posted: 30th May 2006 09:10
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did that work?

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Posted: 30th May 2006 10:49
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Did you defrag in safe mode?

Maybe it's just a really lame defrag, like it's been run while a lot of stuff has been in use, leaving lot's of files here and there that can't be defragged, like nails in a watermelon.

I always defrag in safe mode, it's the cleanest and safest option.

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I didn't defrag it again. I'm using this laptop for work stuff and I can't risk losing it or slowing my pc down even more. I'm getting a new hard drive so after I get everything accross I'll try to defrag this one again. A friend recommended another defrag tool to use, saying it's a lot better than the default windows one but again don't want to risk running it. Just an extra note that when I go to defrag it the analyse bit alone takes an hour or more! Even in safe mode. I think my hard disk might be on the verge of dieing which is why I'm so cautious. When I take it out I can hear something rattling so I'm trying to go easy on it.


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Posted: 30th May 2006 15:56
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The defrag that broke the camels back?

Yeah, I'd be more concearned about saving the data on it than making it faster .

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Posted: 30th May 2006 16:09
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Instead of defragging in Safe Mode, I use this nifty little app called SpeeDefrag - It restarts your computer, and runs the defrag tool from a Command Prompt as you log-in to Windows, before any other app starts, then has the option of shutting down the computer afterwards.

Quote: "SpeeDefrag is the exclusive freeware program which optimizes windows xp defrag It restart your computer which refreshes the ram and then load just the defrag.exe program. This impose min load on system and therefore defragmentation speed is increased. This program will also shutdown or restart your computer automatically once defrag is over."


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Nice one!

I'll have to grab a copy of that.

It's funny, but recently the most useful applications I've found have been awkward DOS boot things, people getting sick of Windows incompatibilities with this stuff I think, nice to step back into a more stable environment now and then.

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Have you done a full scandisk as well ? Sounds like there are problems with the files or directory structures - possibly even the hard drive itself.

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Posted: 30th May 2006 18:16 Edited at: 30th May 2006 18:16
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Quote: "Installer Error: This version of SpeeDefrag is for Windows XP only."


Sappy. No reason it shouldn't work on win2k.

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Quote: "Have you done a full scandisk as well ? Sounds like there are problems with the files or directory structures - possibly even the hard drive itself."


Well after reading your post I decided to run chkdsk. I was afraid it might find faults and make matters worse by trying to fix them. I was right, when it was running it found a lot of problems and I mean a lot. After it finished the computer wouldn't reboot and had the error message "ntldr is missing". Lot's of cursing and telling my self I knew I shouldn't have done it I looked up if there was a way to fix it. Lookily it was just a matter of copying the file off the xp install disk. And with some serious relief I saw windows starting up. And everything is fast again! I guess chkdsk sorted the problem files or sections of disk and it's all looking good now. I hope all my work files are intact but at least most stuff looks ok. I'll still be replacing the disk though.


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Does sound as though the hard drive is rather dodgy - managing to get NTLDR corrupt is not good...

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Posted: 30th May 2006 23:43
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NTLDR missing-- wow, haven't seen that one in years. Did you have all of Windows XP updates? SP 2 etc.


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chkdsk doesn't try to fix anything unless you run it with the /P flag - Otherwise, all it does is detects bad sectors

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Its actually /F

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Posted: 31st May 2006 23:41 Edited at: 31st May 2006 23:49
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I ran chkdsk /r

Quote: "Did you have all of Windows XP updates? SP 2 etc."


Short answer, no.


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Posted: 31st May 2006 23:52 Edited at: 31st May 2006 23:53
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Aren't chkdsk /f and /r the same thing? Almost?


Nevermind...


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Posted: 31st May 2006 23:53
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If I remember correctly, they both work and stand for "Repair" and "Fix".

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Posted: 31st May 2006 23:58
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I think /r does more.

/F Fixes errors on the disk.

/R Locates bad sectors and recovers readable information (implies /F).


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lol, I was close... I mentally mixed the image of an F with an R

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