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Originally posted by -=HUNGRYMAN=-
shut off ALL other programs running while defragmenting !
and if you run ZoneAlarm, LOCK your net connection
... you do not want your machine to be doing ANYTHING while you defragment your disk
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I shut down everything except windows explorer using alt/delete and even unplugged my cable modem. I did not notice any restarts until about the 18th hour. It may have began restarting prior to that and I just didn't catch it. Around the the 18th hour when I did catch it restarting, it would defrag for approximately five minutes then it would take about four minutes for it to be back at the point where it had restarted and defrag for another five minutes then restart again etc.
Next time I defrag I will use system config to kill everything in the startup list, then use alt/delete to kill the rest, and unplug the cable modem.
Without restarting what would be a normal amount of hours to defrag a forty gig hd?