Yeah- I know the ME defrag utility is supposed to be the best but, working on the 2000 side of my machine, I started a defrag for a 40 gig partition when I went to bed. 6 hours later, it was still less than half way done. The original Analysis display didn't look like it was TOO broken up and the current defrag display is no longer showing any fragmented files- it's now "all blue"- but neither the progress bar at the bottom nor the Defrag display has moved in over an hour. Task Monitor shows "Running", not "Not responding". What's the deal here...? Again- just how slow IS this? Any help or thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

HukedOn---, I have found that the more often you do a de-frag the faster it is and I do one weekly now if it needs one or not, sometimes it will defrag my c drive in a couple of minutes, my 2nd hdd with data on gets done in seconds sometimes. Believe it or not, try it yourself. stalisab

stalisab- Thanks for the quick response. I THINK I understand what you're telling me- Are you saying to ignore the "No need to defrag" message when I analyze a drive and just defrag on a regular basis? I run multiple drives and am constantly moving stuff around, deleting things etc., so I AM in the habit of checking to see the status of my drives. Like I said, the original Analysis display didn't look too broken up this time. I'm just surprised at the time it's taking. As of this post, the progress bar has moved to just past halfway, but the display doesn't seemed to have changed at all...

It's a total mystery how anyone could be capable of creating a snail like 2K defrag. It's a cut-down version of DiskKeeper, which I used on NT, and could take 15mins. just to analyze a 20Gb 50% full drive, before taking up to an hour to move a few hundred files around. At least DiskKeeper attempted some form of efficient file layout, e.g. moving the pagefile and MFT (NTFS disk = FAT & Folders on FAT32) to the centre, and clustering files around them. On a 65% full drive, with probably 90% of the files already in place, 2K defrag takes up to an hour, and can just sit there at 100% CPU with no disk activity at all for 10 mins. at a time. What the h@ll's it doing? I can reposition ALL the 65,000 files on an identical Quantum Fireball under Win9x using Norton SpeedDisk in less than 30 mins., and the HD light NEVER goes out, except when Norton's sorting all the directory entries prior to rearranging the files - in the order and position I want.

sounds to me like your defrag hung its happened to me i just start it again.w2k defrag isnt that bad its slower thenwinme defrag butit does the job 1000xs better

Thanks to all for the responses- not that I'm any better off than before LOL Yep- it's sucks!

You not the only one, it took Windows 98 on one of my computers 7 hours to defrag a 10GB hard drive. I was so pissed off because it took until half pass one in the morning to finish.