I seem to get the Speedisk going (at least I can see it slowly moving my swapfile to below) but after awhile, my whole computer will auto-switched off. What's going on?
Yes, I've disabled the auto-power off option in Win98, before you ask.
in my experiences, diskeeper is much better than win2k's disk defragment program. it's faster, and does a better job in rearranging files on hard disk.
The effectiveness of teh W2K defragger depends of several things, including file system (FAT32 or NTFS), available free space, most recent defrag results (esp. if not done by MS's own defragger). State the make and model of your hard drive, and we'll be able to tell if it's a HD issue. If your HD is relatively recent, the HD will not be the cause of the slowness.
7200 RPM Maxtor.....the model # I am not sure of, at work right now. 40 GB (38.1GB in some ways of figuring size). I might be thinking back to when my original HDD was failing. Not sure what went wrong with it exactly but I called Maxtor up and they had a new HDD to me in a few days. I had to give them my credit card for them to send one before I sent mine in. I had 30 days to send my old one back. On the 29th day I remembered about sending it back. I called up to Maxtor worried about being charged for the new HDD. They said no problem, logging in my trouble ticket that the HDD would be coming back late and I sent it back with no problems. Maxtor gets a from me.
Then the problem is not intrinsic to that model. Especially if it is IDE and 7200 RPM.
The slowness is in the OS, or the busmaster drivers, which by default means MS for both likely possibilities. There is another OS issue, but not too common to W2K, and that is system or 3rd party software accesses to the drive being defragged, while the defrag is underway.
Much as I criticise aspects of MS (and they earn it, BTW), their W2K defragger, while inferior to 3rd party offerings, does work and rarely gets caught in certain "loops" and "thrashing" that is more characteristic of their Win9x/ME attempts.
If you have about 5% or more free space, then that is not the cause either.
If good 3rd party defraggers area also slowed (for W2K, I like the Fix It defragger), then it's very likely some setting or program accessing during Defrag.
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from me.
