100 hours to defrag a 2tb hard disk that is 90% "free" ?

Defraggler
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I have a new 2tb HDD of which 180gb is used and 1.6tb is showing as free.

Defragger Analysis initially showed the HDD as 25% fragmented.

After 5 hours, the Defragger status has crept up from 0% to 5%. Presumably this means that the defragmentation process is now 5% complete. If progress continues at this rate, Defragger will take 100 hours to finish.

So I stopped Defragger in normal mode and have restarted it in "Quick" mode to see if it is any faster. Maybe then I can go back and restart Defragger as normal i.e. not in Quick mode.

Is this normal ?

I tried Windows Vista defrag last week and it was even slower - so I am trying Piriform.

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Defraggler indicates that a specific folder on my PC, relating to a single application (car manuals & car parts catalogues)exceeds 10gb and that the folder and its sub folders are very heavily fragmented.

I will exclude this rarely used folder/files from the defrag process which may speed up the overall defrag process considerably.

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Lets us know how it goes.

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Is the hard drive light staying on steadily, or is it going out regularly? Is if off more than on? I am curious to find out if you are having the same issue that I am.