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taking forever to defragment.

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i just built my new Pentium M computer and its got everything up and running, and it does everything CPU or GPU intensive REALLY fast, but when it comes to the hard drive its a Seagate 120GB 7200RPM drive that I had in another computer and it worked REALLY well and fast. now this thing is just crawling along and taking forever to defragment and its REALLY pissing me off. Everest reports the drives temperature at 118F and the SMART statistics seem to be in the normal ranges. the drive has about 9GB free and I've run boot time defrags on it and everything. nothing is using the CPU. the only thing I can think of is the fact that you have to mount the drive upside down in this barebones but would that even cause this??? the drive isnt making clicks of death but i can hear it crunching away with activity a lot more than i ever remember it before.
 
What IDE/sata controller is it? You may be able to defrag it on another computer and then swap it back in (Windows users, check me on this!).
 
I find it extremely curious that the drive must be mounted upside down - it would take up the exact same space right side up, although when cable routign is factored in it is no longer a zero sum game. However, changes in a drive's noise profile are never good. I would turn the whole system (or the drive) over and see if the problem goes away. Hard drives operate on really tight tolerances - the drive servos may have a hard time gettign a bead on the paths on the disk to position the heads for seeks properly in the unusual orientation.
 
Doug, the holes to mount a HD are not in the vertical center of it so it can make a difference in mounting. I think a case that requires that kind of mounting is not well designed, but it's possible. Also, as you said, cables can do it, too.

What defragger?
 
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