Okay, so last night, I realized that I had downloaded some files to my F drive, when I wanted to put them on my E drive instead. F drive is the one that I've been defragging, so I paused the defrag and moved the files. Well, my stupid ass had failed to realize that it was that folder of files that it was working on defragging and the program hung. Since I had to stop it anyway, I figured I'd clear out some more garbage from the drive. I had some old backups of my main drive on there, and there's not really much need to keep the stuff installed in Program Files, aside from a few things, so I deleted a good chunk of that and started the defrag process again. Woke up and saw that it was at 22%! Before deleting the files, it had been in the 11-13% range over two days. Now it did 22% in just 3 hours! (...yeah, I stayed up way too late and didn't get much sleep.)

...but then my computer blue screened.

So I started the defrag process again. I didn't get to see the drivemap before it blue screened so I don't know what it looked like then, but it started out with about 8% of the files optimized, and now, about 3 hours later, it's back at 22%. Watching the drivemap, I could see some of the file organization from previous attempts has assisted in speeding up the first parts, but even when it has to move files, it works a lot faster than it did before. There is clear, visible progress being made here, and it's entirely possible that this could be finished before I wake up tomorrow. That would be FREAKIN' SWEET.