Defrag is taking an unfeasible amount of time

[Zogundar]

..so any other ideas?

I made it to 60% of Zone 3 once. Unfortunately it only made to to 50% the next day. Didn't get to see today's results because the electric went out only a couple of hours after starting it.

Although based on the description it sounds like Zone 3 should be the fastest one, so even if I get to Zone 4 or 5 or 6, can I actually expect it to finish shortly after?

[BloodySword]

It depends on how many files you have on drive. You can try ConsolidateFreeSpace.MyD to make a big free space gap. After it you can try the daily script.

But you should free your drive a lot, move personal data to another drive or something.

[Kasuha]

All you need is to get the largest files on that drive defragmented. There are many ways how to do that.

You can keep running the monthly script repeatedly until it finishes - if you don't use the drive and don't change any files on it, it will pick up at where it ended last time. If you use the disk in between these runs and change files on it, I don't recommend using the monthly script for that.

Other options involve using some other disk to store part or all of files on the one you are trying to optimize. Simple moving all files away and back has good chance to improve fragmentation of big files. Moving just big or just small files away, optimizing the disk and then moving them back are good strategies too.

[Zogundar]

It depends on how many files you have on drive. You can try ConsolidateFreeSpace.MyD to make a big free space gap. After it you can try the daily script.

But you should free your drive a lot, move personal data to another drive or something.

My second HD is even more full than my first.

[BloodySword]

Don't you have an external drive?

(I ask myself how anybody can fill a HDD over 60%...)

[poutnik]

The old wisdom says there are no big disks. There are only not yet filled disks.   

[quanthero]

I would suggest using Daily script since Monthly scripts takes so long.

[dstephaniereedf]

It used to take me a whole day to defrag my harddrive. It was common practice for me to leave it over night and wake up to see it still running.

I then realised that it helps tremendously when you go to task manager (ctrl + alt + del) and disable all non-essential services. You can google a list of these services so you know which to still leave running.

Hope that helps