New beta 4.02 What a change...but 25 sec for a defrag?

[MacPeter]

Hi ,

 

Well it seems that 4.02 is better. The new version is running smoothly, maybe too smoothly.

 

It only takes 25 seconds to defrag and optimize my drive C !?? Is it normal?

 

Except this little problem, I've got another one. Impossible to defrag my external drive of 250 GB. It very nearly froze my computer.

 

 

Thanks for your answers.

[enoskype]

Hi MacPeter,

 

This is really fast!!!

Anyway it is a posibility with 2.53 GHz if you have couple of fragments, and specially if you used PD recently.

 

I suspect you have very large files in your 250 GB external. Does ISD anayze it?

[jlewey]

problems with beta 4.2 dec ver

 

after installing the dec ver i still get an error message and when i try to reply it fills out an email with a blank send to address.. oops

i have 3 drives

works with drives g and h but with Drive C my boot drive i get an error access violation at address 031da0e5 in module isdcom.dll

stop doesn't work and percent complete stays at 0 the system reports no cpu time being used by smart defrag

[MacPeter]

Hi enoskype,

 

OK for the 25 sec, for the time being.

 

But that external drive keeps worrying me. ISD gets stuck at 10% ...then that external drive gets far too hot and I have to stop everything.

 

I tried another free software: Auslogics. It took 3 seconds. (no good either :) )

 

The only software that did the job was from Symantec (not a free one)

 

On that external drive I have my C:\driveimage, maybe that's the reason.

 

If one software manages to defrag my external drive I don't see why ISD shouldn't be able to do the same.:)

[enoskype]

Hi MacPeter,

 

I believe my suspicion was right.

Assuming that your C drive is about 60-70 GB, with normal compression, an image is about 6-7 GBs.

This is quite a large file, and my guess is that, this is the reason.

 

Well, I wonder if any free Defrag program can do your external.

Let's hope that ISD will get better and will do that.

 

IMHO,

I wouldn't play with an image file for defragmentation.

As you may now, Acronis even can create a safe partition (if you wish) that Windows can not deal with, only with the purpose of not spoiling the image file.

 

NOTE:

Did you try the new available Beta 4.02 here ?

Let's hear if there is a difference.

[MacPeter]

Hi enoskype,

 

There was a change:), instead of those 25 seconds it needed 38 seconds and on all my drives the result was similar to the one of another user:

 

 

In ALL cases it finds 13 files of which 1 is fragmented and 3 dirs that are not fragmented at all.

 

 

I have more than 3 directories and 13 files on my C: drive:)

 

I had the same result on my other drives. Failure with the external.

 

But the program did its job well under Win 2000 Pro SP4 with NTFS. I wonder why? The instll was the same(a clean one) on both computers. I know because I installed it on both computers.:)

[fivish]

25 seconds - wow!

 

My Pc has 160G C drive with Pent dual core 2.8GHz and 750M ram on XPsp2 etc. It takes several minutes to defrag. It cant be doing much in 25 seconds!

[solbjerg]

after installing the dec ver i still get an error message and when i try to reply it fills out an email with a blank send to address.. oops

i have 3 drives

works with drives g and h but with Drive C my boot drive i get an error access violation at address 031da0e5 in module isdcom.dll

stop doesn't work and percent complete stays at 0 the system reports no cpu time being used by smart defrag

 

My guess is that you installed it without removing the blocking