Mass Defragmentation on second hard drive

[x9protocol]

I understand that when I rip a dvd that I am using alot of HD space but it fragments so much that on my system it takes 12 or more hours to defrag it.

athlon 1.4 t-bird
512 ddr CRUCIAL
30 and 80 gigs
radeon 64 meg 8500

I am using XP pro with ntfs and use the 80 gig for video and extra stuff that is backed up on DVD-RAM. Would it be easier to just format the 80 with ntfs? And if you recommend it how do I do it? I mean is there an easy way without having to boot from a 98 boot disk.

[mrtristan]

Is there any particular reason why you want to defragment the data? You can probably rip and encode without doing so. I don't bother to defrag after I rip a DVD.

I would format the 80Gig drive with NTFS.

[rhegedus]

It should not take 12 hours, that's for sure!

I can defrag my 120Gb drive in about an hour (or it seems like that - never actually timed it).

Regards,

Rob

[RabidDog]

Too right mate 12 hours means there is something wrong with your disk. I recently changed two 40gb disks to ntfs and even with extreme fragmentation and less than 10% free they defrag in less than two hours ... much better than win98. BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW! then run scandisk thorough. then you probably need to do a low level reformat to flag your sectors in error




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