Problem Defraggin a Laptop

[AFK_Matrix]

Hi,

I am trying to defrag an Asus laptop for a friend and its taking absolutely ages. I am using the trial version of Diskeeper 2007. It actually didn't finish after 2 hours in the office so my friend took it home and ran it from Friday to Sunday and it still hadn't finished

So my friend did some searching with google and found that these 2 files might be causing this:

hiberfil.sys (1.23GB)

pagefile.sys (1.48GB)


When searching she found this out:
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10877_11-5630184.html

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/39408/39408.html?Ad=1

But she also found that deleting the Hiberfil.sys file maybe a problem because she has an Asus:

"hiberfil.sys - cant remove due to Acer replacement program! I have an Acer laptop and hiberfil.sys is taking up valuable space i need while i back up my system! problem is this: the method spoken here to reomove hiberfil.sys file does not work for me! reason: the standard windows xp power management program does not start! instead, an Acer program runs when i choose power management from the control panel! which has no option to turn on/off hybernation! where is the origional xp program for powermanagement located so i can click on that please? ANYONE!!! "

http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=89&threadID=172449&messageID=2202106

So is it going to be ok to delete these files and if so will this solve the slow defrag problem?

 

[Burnsy2023]

You won't be able to delete your pagefile, however, you can defrag it separetly by using a tool avaliable from sysinternals.

The other file I would guess was a hibernation temp file, which I surmise was ok to delete, although I'm not sure how much of a preformance deficit this would solve for the defrag.

Burnsy

 

[binaryknight]

you could disable the page file which would delete it for you, run the defrag and then re-enable the pagefile which would then be fragment free

as for the hibernation file i usually disable this through power managment but you mention some asus program?

try and find out what it is, im sure its not essential and disable it from starting up

out of interest use the task bar to see how many processes there is running this may be slowing you down

also do not run programs that may use the hd a lot whan defragging this will jsut slow the process further on an already slo laptop drive