At 12:41 AM 8/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
>One quick comment on defrag under FAT32:
>
>I think that the usual recommendation of once a week, is not often enough.
>And, I can see where that could take as much as 30 to 60 minutes.
>
>However, if it is taking hours, depending upon how often you defrag, it
>sounds as if something is not quite right.  My brother-in-law made the
>switch from NT to Win95, and it took him 6 hours to defrag, but then he'd
>had the computer for about 3 years and had never run defrag.

Thanks for the info.

I had mentioned it takes several hours for defragmentation.

Checked and found that for defragmentation (under Win98), it takes several
hours when the settings "rearrange program files so my programs run faster"
and "check drives for errors" are checked. When these are unchecked, it
takes a substantially lesser amount of time. It took about 60 minutes to
defrag a 1.2GB hdd. Must find out what effect this has on performance, though.


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