Am I better off resetting my computer or defragging it?

[Whoowee]

I've been having issues with my computer for a while now and recently I've found the problem, 27% of the files on my computer are fragmented, however, to defragment these files would take a whole month and I'm not sure if I can bear to wait that long. Should I reset my computer and take a little less time to reinstall what I need?

The defragging status.
http://puu.sh/uZDX1/bdf1e97cc8.png

 

[ss202sl]

Why would it take a month? How much free space is on the drive?

 

[Colif]

how slow is your PC that 320gb of defragging will take an entire month? I am amazed win 10 hasn't tried to do any work on it before as its meant to run defrag when idle.

Reset means reinstalling all your programs again, would it be faster to reinstall all your programs than just leaving PC on a few nights and letting it run defrag?

 

[Whoowee]

Why would it take a month? How much free space is on the drive?

I may have exaggerated the time required, but I left it defragging all night and it only finished 2%.

I have 214 GB free of 1.35 TB

 

[Ansh_3]

I would be better resetting

 

[BFG-9000]

If you reset with the "keep my files" setting, your disk will be nearly as fragmented as before the reset, only with the apps uninstalled and settings returned to default.

If it is really defragmenting at less than a quarter of a megabyte per second, there may be something wrong with your drive. I've had to RMA Seagate SATA and PATA drives that showed no SMART errors and passed all of the SeaTools utility tests--they had only slowed down to USB 1.1 speeds.

I think the firmware is intentionally programmed to report everything is fine unless it's nearly dead to deter warranty returns which cost them money. They must know it too because I had no trouble getting the RMAs even after I told them the tests all said OK.

 

[Colif]

IN terms of speed and given he willing to throw everything away, a fresh install beats both as part of process is delete the partitions and that beats a defrag in time - just backup everything you want to keep first

should run defrag more often now you know it can be a problem if you ignore it too long. I tend to forget it as main drive is an ssd and they don't use defrag.