Defrag lag

Hey Everybody, I have an Asus a8js and I was just going through and pulling some unused software and doing regular maintenance and when I went to defrag it ran very very slow. It's been on 1% for about 2 1/2 hours. It got to about 13% last night but I had to leave work and had to stop it in order to bring it home.

Does anyone know what may have caused this? Its a brand new Laptop. Thanks for your help.

 

how much disk space left?
tried running defrag in safe mode? - it could be some antivirus software is blocking it

cheers ...

 

It could be that you haven't defragmented the hard drive in so long, that its has become clogged with lots of fragmented files. I remember that when I defragmented the old family desktop, it took almost day to do, because it had so many files on it. I would let it run and see what the computer does. If it freezes or does it isn't supposed to, then there may well be something wrong with the defragmenter. In that case, you may want to consider a different program to defragment.

 

Use a better defragger? Windows' built-in one is terrible. If I hadn't tried the built-in one for Windows 9x, I'd say it was the worst in the world...

Also, I know it's a lot to ask, but *please* use the word lag to describe something where it makes sense only.
Lag = latency = delay. It is not the same as "my computer is slow" or "it takes a long time to do x activity", or even "I'm getting a low framerate in this game".
It *only* applies to situations where you do something, and it takes a while for your action to be registered. For example in network games, you have lag because you fire your gun, and the server registers it happening maybe 200ms later. That is lag. Everything else is just "lousy performance", "low speed", "slow computer" or whatever you want to call it. But when you start a defrag, it starts instantly. If it started 20 seconds later, it would be lag.

A slow harddrive is *not* lag.

Thank you.