On my win7 "hub" pc. I started it yesterday about 4:00pm and this morning, it's still running at pass 2 30% consolidating. I have 4,119,543 files on this 4TB drive with about 700 gb space left. I used the following to determine the number of files: dir \ /s/a/w
Took less than 5 minutes to run giving me the total at the bottom.
I know some of you guys have either bigger drives or more of them, so do you run into this same problem? I have it setup to run every Friday night, but for some reason, it looks like it was not run for a month or so. Is that because I have Apex DC running in the background?
INFO:
The "/s" switch enables a recursive search on all sub-directories, the "/a" switch counts all files regardless of Attributes, and the "/w" displays multiple entries on a single line so that the report will finish a little bit faster.
Defrag taking a long time...
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Re: Defrag taking a long time...
Sorry, you lost me at win7.
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Re: Defrag taking a long time...
Shouldn't take that long, unless it's hanging on some bad sectors.
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Why? Is it because I'm still using Windows 7?psypher wrote:Sorry, you lost me at win7.
The drive does not have any bad sectors. It's an old motherboard going on 10 years with only 2 cores.
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Finally finished taking 27 hours to complete. I also forgot to mention that the drive is also slow at 5400rpm. I noticed when I restarted Apex DC, it went a lot faster than before.
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Still shouldn't have taken that long.
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LOL - I discovered the issue. I forgot that I had downloaded the freedb database and wanted to see what was inside, so it was extracted to that drive - all 3.9 million little files. Took forever to delete the folder using explorer. Probably should have used a dos prompt. Anyway, that seemed to have fixed the issue.
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HARSH! LOL
I still have one VM that is running W7 because some of the apps I use don't seem to like W10 so until that's resolved and I test it, I'll stick with Win7.
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Well, I could probably move to 10, but I have Eset Internet Security and Malwarebytes Pro running. It's an old motherboard - +12 years and only a dual core. When it dies, then I'll move to something better.