Defragging a 120 gb hard drive is taking sooooooooo long

[budz]

ok i have a maxtor 120gb hd on my other pc that has been defragging for about 6 hours, on speed disk it says OPTIMIZING MOVING DATA 33%.....is there something wrong here cuz I have never had a hard drive take this long to defrag....or is it cuz the hard drive was so fragmented to begin with? any replies will be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance!

[bazooka]

Well, tbo, it could be both heavily fragmented, and there could be something wrong.

Only you can figure it out though, because I do not have the same computer setup as you.

[rallynavvie]

That or if you have less than 15% space available on the drive for it to move things around, I've noticed that can slow down defragging considerably. Better off cancelling it and freeing up space first.

[budz]

rallynavvie wrote:

That or if you have less than 15% space available on the drive for it to move things around, I've noticed that can slow down defragging considerably. Better off cancelling it and freeing up space first.

By george I think that's it! Cuz I have only less than 10 gb left on that drive. I backedup stuff from the failing 200gb hard drive on to the 120gb. Thanks for the help rallynavvie!