I've been running Norton defragmentation on my laptop for 65 hours. Do I take a risk if I click on "Cancel" or have I waited the 65 hours for free?
You shouldn't cancel any case
Reason 1: It could damage the data medium
Reason 2: Yes, you would have waited in vain
Reason 3: If it takes so long, it obviously needs it urgently
This is not an all-or-nothing action, it happens in many individual steps. You can cancel.
However, you shouldn't expect too much effect from defragmentation. In any case, 65 hours sounds excessively long - is the plate almost full or defective?
If you are offered a demolition, you can do so without hesitation. Why else should the function be available?
Reason 1: It could damage the data medium
You have to explain that now.
I was just thinking too. Maybe full and lots of big files.
Maybe in addition:
The duration of the defragmentation has a lot to do with the number of files on a disk, the size of the files and the speed of the hard disk.
So z. B. O&O Defrag special modes for large hard disks with many files, in which the "normal" routines would take a lot of time, but which are not so thorough (and must be!)
I'm not sure, but an HDD runs with magnetic disks or not? If you cancel it, it doesn't do me any good then I think. Reasons 2 and 3 are the most important
Thank you for your answers!
Yes, my hard drive is probably very full… And it is quite possible that it also needed defragmentation.
I was about to cancel when the process ended after 66 hours. So my question has been resolved.
Once again many thanks!
And what does that have to do with the "magnetic disks"? Which physical process should cause damage here?
Reason 2 doesn't make sense either. Defragmentation is necessarily a step-by-step process - otherwise you would need a hard disk of the same size as an interim storage (and could save yourself the defragmenter - just copy it down and put it back on, then the fragmentation is also gone).
