Came across another partition while defragging...

Cavallino · 1 Nov 2009 at 22:11

So when I click defrag in W7... it takes a little while to load up ... and when it does I get 3 drives...

C:
D:
and \\?\Volume{6f52a3f0-c406-11de-beaf-beaf-806e6f6e6963}\

I have no clue what that last one is.. I thought it was the USB port on my printer which is connected via LAN (but I have that turned off atm and that drive is still there...

Can anyone offer any comments or opinions about this? Cheers.

Cavallino · 1 Nov 2009 at 22:34

Broken Hope said:
Should be the 100MB boot partition that W7 creates.

Yea I thought that too, but I dont see it come up on my computer (presumably) its hidden).

Also it seems to take a good 10 seconds to load up defrag. Is this normal?

Cavallino · 1 Nov 2009 at 22:44

See Im concerned about the load time for defrag...

Could you tell me if that volume partition on your HD is similarly labelled like mine above?

Cavallino · 1 Nov 2009 at 23:15

Broken Hope said:
It is.

Thanks very much bud.

Could you do me a favour and just time from clicking on disk defragmenter to when the window appears? I have timed it and it takes 8-10 seconds and Im just concerned that this could be a problem elsewhere for my rig.

Cavallino · 1 Nov 2009 at 23:49

Uncanny... I click mine and it takes more than 9 seconds...

Could this be a problem? Can I ask what HD you have and the size?

Also I was told there is a HD bench util in W7... do you know about it?

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 00:05

Broken Hope said:
I have a 640GB WD Black and a 320GB Seagate 7200.12 in there. I have no idea about a built in HDD benchmark.

I have a 1TB drive. Perhaps bigger HD cause longer load time for defrag? (clutching at straws tbh).

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 07:55

Why would it forget to hide it thought.

And does anyone have any theories about why defray could be taking soon to load? Cause for concern?

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 08:42

faugusztin said:
Well, it can be system reserved partition from Vista or some other install, thus it doesn't have the name mapping in registry.

And no, you should not think about slow load of defrag tool.

Thanks a lot for your replies also faugusztin (and everyone).

Any theories why it would load slowly? In the back of my mind I am a bit peeved at this.

Also can I ask what HDs you have ?

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 09:04

Can I ask what HDs you got Faugusztin? I have only 1 F3 Sammy 1TB HD.

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 12:05

IAmATeaf said:
What's the spec of the rest of your system?

I assume that you've got the HDD partitioned into 2? This could maybe account for the extra delay?

Q6600 @ 8x450=3.6GHz with P5Q Deluxe.
2X2GB PC8500 Corsair.
ATI Radeon 4870.
Samsung F3 1TB 32MB Cache HD.

And yes you are correct. Its partitioned into two.
C: = 150GB
D: = 850 (less system data etc).

You honestly think the partioning aspect could be the reason for this? Interesting suggestion...

When overclocking, is there any voltage that I need to up in order for SATA to work properly? Or any other setting for that matter?

Thanks for your help teaf.

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 12:46

Just ran the process monitor suggested by faugusztin and when I run defrag I can see one of the entries as "BUFFER OVERFLOW" and detail as "144"
Other entries for defrag are successful.

Any ideas what this could be? Is there a potential issue to be solved?

Cavallino · 2 Nov 2009 at 18:02

Broken Hope said:
Managed to change the drive label of my system partition so it now shows up as System Reserved in Defrag at least. Still not sure why your defrag takes so long to open, I have my hard drive partitioned too so it's not that.

How did you rename it?