Q131648: Description of Percent Complete Values in Disk Defragmenter

Article: Q131648
Product(s): Microsoft Windows 95.x Retail Product
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Keyword(s): scandisk diskmem win95 defrag kbDefrag kbDiskMemory kbScanDisk
Last Modified: 06-FEB-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Windows 95 
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SUMMARY
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This article describes the meaning of the values in the Percent Complete status
bar when you are running Disk Defragmenter.

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The following table describes the meaning of the values in the Percent Complete
status bar:

  Value      Description
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  0%-4%      Defrag is running a special version of ScanDisk for Windows
             to check for errors before doing anything with the disk.

  5%-9%      Defrag is making a "road map" of the best locations for the
             data on the drive which it will use when actually moving the
             files.

  10%-100%   Defrag is moving the data on the disk.

On a drive compressed with DoubleSpace or DriveSpace, the following meanings
apply:

  Value      Description
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  10%-49%    This is the first optimization pass through the compressed
             file.

  50%        Defrag is checking the internal compression structures of
             the drive.

  51%-100%   This is the second and fastest optimization pass on the
             compressed file.

If the percentage jumps from 0 to 5 percent without any drive activity, the Check
Drive For Errors option is probably not enabled.

The ScanDisk activity from 0 to 4 percent occurs only when Defrag is started. The
ScanDisk activity is not repeated if Defrag is forced to restart because of disk
activity.


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