ME > XP upgrade, Laptop Defrags Slow(3hr)

[bumtracks]

Installed XP upgrade on a winME Toshiba Laptop, plus current SP2 & all
crit+security and probably a minor few other upgrades. Laptop was pretty
clean at about 3gb with winME ended up 10+ gb total after XP & currents.
Have trimmed down to 8gb total over the past two days and hopefully once
familiar with windowsXP can trim some more serious bytes out.
Toshiba P3-850/512mb/15gb-4200rpm/Fat32

Anyhow first defrag after XP&updates was around three hours and other
defrags are well over an hour, maybe two hrs.
Is there a trick to speed this XP defrag process up? Seems to do a pretty
complete job but boy is it slow compared to what I'm accustomed to.

Thanks.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

The defrag time is typical following an installation. Installation leaves a
hard drive very fragmented. Third party defraggers like Diskeeper and
PerfectDisk are lighting bolts compared to the Windows defragger. I suggest
you download a trial version of Diskeeper 9 from
http://consumer.execsoft.com/downloads/downloads.asp?RId=50 and give it a
go.

 

[ByTor]

Installed XP upgrade on a winME Toshiba Laptop, plus current SP2 & all
crit+security and probably a minor few other upgrades. Laptop was pretty
clean at about 3gb with winME ended up 10+ gb total after XP & currents.
Have trimmed down to 8gb total over the past two days and hopefully once
familiar with windowsXP can trim some more serious bytes out.
Toshiba P3-850/512mb/15gb-4200rpm/Fat32

Anyhow first defrag after XP&updates was around three hours and other
defrags are well over an hour, maybe two hrs.
Is there a trick to speed this XP defrag process up? Seems to do a pretty
complete job but boy is it slow compared to what I'm accustomed to.

Thanks.

That's a hell of a jump from 3 to 10gb?????