defrag times

[martynrb]

Any idea how long Vista will take to defrag the 200Gb HDD on my SZ5?
Drive is about 60% full, lots of music and games, but not too much uninstalling has been done.
I'm still finding my way round Vista, but seems to me that the Vista defrag utility doesn't have the graphical bar indicator like XP does, so it's been defragging for 6 hours now....and I've no idea on what progress is being made!!

[martynrb]

Good morning folks.
Tony, yes the machine was disconnected from internet, and Norton was disabled.
Just for everyone's information, it was defragging from 7am and it did finally finish at 4.30pm, so 9 1/2 hours. What a pain.

[MattWilson]

Just make sure you do it nice and often and it will be lightning quick.

[kee-lo_]

WOW, maybe I should keep an XP box just for defragging HDs...