RichardP 0 Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Just to endorse Mr Westcott's advice about not defragging. The thing built into XP isn't reputedly any good, anyhow. 3rd party offerings like the one supplied by O&O Software are better, though they don't really make a huge difference. Moreover, I would never attempt to defrag large external drives over USB. I had a Maxtor 250Gb USB drive once (70% full with music/video/installation source) and it was fine until I attempted to defrag it - then it really got screwed up. Visiting other tech forums I found other exasperated users in a similar mire because they had tried to defrag their USB drive. The suggestion was that it was something to do with the technical capability of the drive interface, as I recall. Anyway just avoid doing it (not least for the reasons Andy's already stated). <a href="http://www.djassociates.org"><img src="http://www.djassociates.org/anims/compres_banner.gif" alt="Join the DJ Associates Disc Jockey Association" border="0" width="468" height="60"></a> Link to post Share on other sites
TonyB 0 Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 If you really feel like you want to defrag a USB drive, the best way is if you have two drives and copy one to the other. The files will be all nice and tidy on the new drive when they are copied over. Link to post Share on other sites
jeffwall 0 Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 run system chkdsk in start ....run....type in chkdsk and it will check your hard drive for errors worth doing if your hard drive took that long to defrag? I have defragged few times on a 40gig laptop, never had a problem....However on the main PC upstairs it took forever. Once i ran chkdsk, it found errors and fixed them automatically. Then defrag worked ok. Im no expert though, just was good advice from a friend at the time Link to post Share on other sites
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