Generally I like my Norton's and have had many versions forever.
They DO get behind in catching up with the latest and greatest
sometimes...

I lost the contents of a hard drive once (it was a duplicate/clone
thank goodness) when I told it to defrag AND wipe the free space.
Because I had a somewhat odd configuration, (patched and supported
by them three minor revisions later), it thought the whole drive was
free space (for some reason) and erased the entire thing.

I would think the speed issue is due to the fact that it does not
understand what it is doing too well, and is taking lots of time to
figure it all out.  At least you are not loosing anything. (Right?)

I used to have the same type of "issue" in Windows with drives
that were not set up quite properly years ago.  (File manager
would take 5-10 minutes to display the file listing, etc...)

                                                       Rick Glazier

From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>

Hi group. I am here to ask if anyone else is experiencing Norton Sloooow
Disk when they try to run Speed Disk (part of System Works). I just tried to
use it on my Win XP Pro computer (2.4GHz P4 with 512M PC2700 RAM) - it took
26 hours to complete and it was still fragmented. Rerunning it took another
16 hours to complete. I then tried the defrag built in to XP and it took
less than an hour. I realize that Norton may do more, but at that speed I
don't think I am likely to run it very often. Any comments from other and
their experiences? By the way, I don't have Office XP indexing installed, my
hard drives are running in RAID 0 configuration, and they have 8MB cache on
each drive. Total disk usage is about 56GB - high, but not outrageous by
today's standards.

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