slow defragmentation

A little more information would be helpful.

CPU speed, free disk space, RAM, and does it take so long because it keeps restarting ?

Low resources will make it take longer (Disk 3/4 or more in use with files, 64M Ram (minumum recommmended for 98), Small swap file, and the list goes on these are the main reasons for slowing down a computer.

Check C:\ and see if there are any/many FILE????.CHK files, delete these. Make sure you have not been saving documents, text files, downloads to the root directory (C:\).

Goto START -> Search and look for files using *.tmp, delete all in the TEMP and Temporary Internet Files directory, over 256 files in either directory will surely slow down most systems.

I think the best way to solve your problem without defraging in safemode or playing with your system config utility. Is to download a very small free app called Process Explorer5.2, you can get it here
http://www.sysinternals.com/index.shtml

After you install & open it, the screen will be in two sections, the upper shows all the running processes, when you click on one of these items all the components it's connected to will be displayed in the bottom screen.

The neat part is when you right click one of the items a menu opens always select properties to see if it's linked to anything or if it says non-existent process in which case you can kill that process.

I'd still disable your antivirus & firewall manually first. But using this is much safer & should let you run your defrag faster.

Go to Office Depot and but Symantec Utilities and use the defrag that comes with it. It'll make life easier. Or, upgrade the OS.

In defragging the most factor that affect the speed of defragging is your drive status....and other is mentioned earlier of some members..

Here are some scen...

At home, when i defrag the 2 PC, with the same specs, the same hard drive is Samsung 6.5 GB. and almost the same free space, and the same partition and OS...I run the defrag both at the same time (To know who can defrag faster) the one takes 1hr and the other one takes 4....This is because the one that take a short time in defragging is a newly partition and and newly formatted and newly installed hard drive....and the other one which take a long time is a 2 month old. So there is a big factor behind this..

OTHER :

If your hard drive have enought space or a lot of space to work the defragmenter, it can work fast...

If your hard drive have fast transfer rate (like ATA133,100,66) it also work fast

If your hard drive are brand new, so more possible that the drive is in high integrity level, it also work fast.
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Pinoy_Teknik

Make sure you're screensaver is turned off. Screensavers constantly access the hard drive and cause defrag to restart over and over ... and over, and over ... and over.

In defragging the most factor that affect the speed of defragging is your drive status....and other is mentioned earlier of some members..

Here are some scen...

At home, when i defrag the 2 PC, with the same specs, the same hard drive is Samsung 6.5 GB. and almost the same free space, and the same partition and OS...I run the defrag both at the same time (To know who can defrag faster) the one takes 1hr and the other one takes 4....This is because the one that take a short time in defragging is a newly partition and and newly formatted and newly installed hard drive....and the other one which take a long time is a 2 month old. So there is a big factor behind this..

OTHER :

If your hard drive have enought space or a lot of space to work the defragmenter, it can work fast...

If your hard drive have fast transfer rate (like ATA133,100,66) it also work fast

If your hard drive are brand new, so more possible that the drive is in high integrity level, it also work fast.
.............

Pinoy_Teknik

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