Yesterday I got a copy of Diskeeper to properly defrag my hard drives, which I haven’t done in several years. Possibly 7 years. The program works great and I’ve run it on my laptop and office computer several times now, and the drive looks better each time.
On my office computer, though, the page file was spread into tiny pieces all over the hard drive. The program recommended that I do a boot-time defrag, which reboots the computers and starts up a DOS-looking application that takes care of the page file and a lot of other boot-up things. The problem is, I started it at 5pm yesterday and it’s STILL GOING.
Right now it’s at STAGE 3. I don’t know how many stages there are and there’s no kind of status indicator on the screen. I know it’s running because I can hear the hard drive making noise. I left it running all night, thinking it would be done by morning. Has anyone ever done this? How long did it take you?
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