I don’t know if your “H” drive is a separate drive or not or internal or external.

Nonetheless, let me elaborate.

  1. Check your scans. Select a scan. Click on “Show More Detail”----Click on Settings--------Click on Performance. If there is a a check mark in the lower of the two boxes this could be slowing down your scanning.

  2. Open Task Manager before you scan. Under “Options” set it to “always stay on top”. Click on “Performance”. Start your scan and follow the memory numbers at the bottom to see how much memory, cache etc you have available as the scan goes along. See if the “Available Physical Memory” falls below 50% of “Total” Memory. Also follow how much cache is being used. If you “APM” is getting too low and you are using a lot of cache a disk drive that is as full of yours will slow down the scan.

  3. You can try the same thing when you run a defrag. In addition, if you have a disk that is 75% or more full and highly fragmented that will cause problems trying to defrag the disk. This is especially true if you have some large files, like a Windows System backup or two or even more on the hard drive. The reason for this is your drive may not have enough un-fragmented space to place an un-fragmented file in it that the defgrag software is trying to defrag.

  4. If you have an available USB port and don’t mind spending the money to buy a hard drive, I would recommend that you purchase one. Then I would go to your “C” drive and move all or a good chunk of your “Personal Data” files to the new Drive. I would also move a chunk of your files off of “H” drive onto the new drive. If you don’t have an available USB port and don’t mind spending the money to buy a HDD then I would suggest buying a USB hub in addition to the HDD. Check out what is available on Amazon. Great prices. I buy all of my computer hardware accessories from them and rarely have had a problem.