Gee Mark -

I just finished running a defrag on 5 drives (about 40GB total) in a total elapsed time of about 18 minutes.

(Of course that little test using the "clean boot" configuration took 3:23 on the first of the 5, and a "normal" rerun took about an hour.)

The four "data" drives that I had cleaned up about a month ago went very quickly. The "system" drive - in the test run - took longer than usual, because the "dumb" defrag used by that mode insisted on moving every file on the disk, and then - of course - rerunning "my" normal defrag took about an hour - because it put a lot of stuff back where it was to begin with - to "optimize" the drive.

The Q-note is/was intended for those who can't get defrag to run to completion. Once it's got a drive organized, it shouldn't be needed - unless you neglect to run occasionally.

John