Defrag a single drive

Hi

I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about half
full, defrag takes about 36 hours.

I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:, select
properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?

thanks

Daniel

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about
> half full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>
> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:,
> select properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?


You can select which particular drive you want using the built-in defragger,
only once you have installed SP1, which is not due for release for several
months.

ss.

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about half
> full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>
> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:, select
> properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?
>
> thanks
>
> Daniel
>


you can use the command line.

ex : defrag c: -w -v

"fourteen" <> wrote in message
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> you can use the command line.
>
> ex : defrag c: -w -v

I wonder why the muppets at Microsoft didn't add that to the GUI.

ss.

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> "fourteen" <> wrote in message
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>> you can use the command line.
>>
>> ex : defrag c: -w -v
>
> I wonder why the muppets at Microsoft didn't add that to the GUI.
>
> ss.
>


Yeah.
They could have had
Standard Mode
Advanced Mode

"fourteen" <> wrote in message
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> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi
>>
>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about
>> half full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>>
>> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:, select
>> properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
>
> you can use the command line.
>
> ex : defrag c: -w -v

Okay, I'll give it a go, what do the -e -v switches do?

thanks

Daniel

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> "fourteen" <> wrote in message
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>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about
>>> half full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>>>
>>> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:, select
>>> properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
>>
>> you can use the command line.
>>
>> ex : defrag c: -w -v
>
> Okay, I'll give it a go, what do the -e -v switches do?
>
> thanks
>
> Daniel


E for Everything and V for Verbose.

Saucy

"Daniel" <> wrote in message
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> "fourteen" <> wrote in message
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>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about
>>> half full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>>>
>>> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:, select
>>> properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>
>>
>> you can use the command line.
>>
>> ex : defrag c: -w -v
>
> Okay, I'll give it a go, what do the -e -v switches do?
>
> thanks
>
> Daniel


-w full defrag

-v verbose...more details

run cmd.exe as administrator

"Saucy" <> wrote in message
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> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>> "fourteen" <> wrote in message
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>>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about
>>>> half full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>>>>
>>>> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:,
>>>> select properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> you can use the command line.
>>>
>>> ex : defrag c: -w -v
>>
>> Okay, I'll give it a go, what do the -e -v switches do?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
> E for Everything and V for Verbose.
>
> Saucy


P.S. and it's not -e ... it's -c

"fourteen" <> wrote in message
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> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>> "fourteen" <> wrote in message
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>>> "Daniel" <> wrote in message
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>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I have a Vista Ultimate PC with three 250 Gig hard drives, each about
>>>> half full, defrag takes about 36 hours.
>>>>
>>>> I only really want to defrag C: drive, so if I richt click on C:,
>>>> select properties then Tools, Defrag, does this defrag C: only?
>>>>
>>>> thanks
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> you can use the command line.
>>>
>>> ex : defrag c: -w -v
>>
>> Okay, I'll give it a go, what do the -e -v switches do?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Daniel
>
>
> -w full defrag
>
> -v verbose...more details
>
> run cmd.exe as administrator

Okay, sorry about my typo!

Thanks for your help

regards

Daniel