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Is it possible that my computer can defrag for 3 days and still not be finished?

I have an older computer by a few yrs and I have used it hard and mostly for editing photos..I have 1000's of them and I never knew about defraging until someone told me to..I tried it and it has been defraging for 3 days now and not even close to being done..Is the computer messed up or stuck or can it truly be defraging that long?? I mostly use that for storing things on..like photos and music etc.

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  • founck
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    It's probably just not responding or something else has gone wrong. I would exit out the the defragger and download Auslogics disk defrag. It is much much faster than the defragger that comes with windows and it does an excellent job. Auslogics normally takes less than 30 minutes for most computers, less than 10 minutes on mine.

    http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag

  • jizmo
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Normally if you do a lot of adding/deleting and editing files esp photos etc the drive tends to get fragmented very fast and warrants regular defrag. Also know that with the Windows program it needs a minimum of 15% free space and all other programs have to be turned off. Its likely that your drive is severely fragmented and you may be better off getting a better and faster defragger.

    You could first run a diskcleanup, free up as much space then defrag using Diskeeper. Download the trial version and simply set it on automatic mode. It will defrag in the background even as you work.

    The advantages are that it works even under low free space and the 09 edition is great at handling severe fragmentation.

    http://www.diskeeper.com/defrag.aspx

  • Joshua
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    Are you using Windows Defrag?

    Try using JK-Defrag: http://www.filehippo.com/download_jkdefrag/

  • 1 decade ago

    Hi, i wil restart computer and try it again, its not normal.good luck

    one more thing, be sure your hard disk is not full, defragmentation need at least 10% free space on your hard drive(better 15%)

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  • 1 decade ago

    it sounds like it could have a virus.

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