Norton's Speed Disk clocks CPU at ~50% at ~99% analyze

[OldPCKen]

I have Norton SystemWorks 2005 on my Windows XP SP2 PC. When I do an Analyze on any drive, it seems to stop at about 99% and it could take anywhere from 1 to 5 minutes to finish the analyze and show me the results. I ran the task manager and looked at CPU and for non-responsive apps. The duel CPU (Intel P4 @ 3GHz) shows as 50 to 55% of utilization - one side high and one side low.

Here's the thing, this did not happen, the delay, until I decided that I wanted to degrag my MFT and page files at boot time. I installed and ran a trial of Diskeeper to do this and completely de-installed it after the trial. I did not have any issues running the Diskeeper program and not with Speed Disk before the Diskeeper install. Can anyone shed some light on this?

I did note the the hang at 99% analyze was shorter on my C: & E: drives than on my F:, G:, H:, & I: drives. It could be due to the early letters being 16GB partitions and the others 32GB partitions. My HDD is an SATA 160GB drive. Thank you. OldPCKen

 

[cdogg]

Hmm, haven't heard of that before.

If you're pretty sure the problem started after using Diskeeper, then perhaps going ahead with the defrag using "Speed Disk" might solve the issue. If you've already done a defrag on C: and E: after using Diskeeper, then I'm not sure what it is...

~cdogg
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[linney]

You could try running ChkDsk to see if that can correct any drive problems you might be having.

To run ChkDsk and check your drive for errors. Right-click your Drive icon/ Properties/ Tools/ Error Checking. Select both boxes.