Any way to exclude certain drives?

[ayjayar]

It takes 6 hours to quick scan all my drives.

Is there a way to scan only certain drives and not others? I have not found any settings either in the GUI or command line that would enable me to do it.

TIA

Andrew

[noknojon]

Welcome ayjayar -

That is a very slow scan - I assume that is Full Scan - You only need to do a Quick Scan unless there are problems -

You must have a large data base for that time and 1 or 2 external drives also -

My older XP takes about 10 mins for a Quick Scan and a bit over 1 hour for a Full Scan (many take half this time) -

Download CCleaner From Here to remove many unwanted Temp files and see if that reduces the time -

Also Defrag your drives to sort them out -

Thank You - Let me know if this helps -

[ayjayar]

[...]That is a very slow scan - I assume that is Full Scan - You only need to do a Quick Scan unless there are problems -

You must have a large data base for that time and 1 or 2 external drives also -[...]

Quick scan: 3 Internal (1TB each) and 6 Ext (4TB).

I suppose I could turn the external ones off, but I still am looking for a way to scan only certain drives and exclude others. I am dual booting, Win 7 on drive C, XP on drive O:/, so I gotta scan all internal drives, since E has all my data and that's where downloads go.

Thanks for the reply.

[Wide_Glide]

Hello ayjayar and Welcome

You could try going to Computer and then right click on the drive you want to scan, but this would only be a one at a time solution

Or you could try a Full Scan and un-check the Drives you do NOT want to scan(See Image) to see if this would reduce the duration of the scan time

[ayjayar]

Hello ayjayar and Welcome

You could try going to Computer and then right click on the drive you want to scan, but this would only be a one at a time solution

Or you could try a Full Scan and un-check the Drives you do NOT want to scan(See Image) to see if this would reduce the duration of the scan time

Thank you. Buncha very helpful people here. I will enjoy participating, especially after I become a little bit more experienced.

Good ideas. I will try both, see what's more efficient. I would have liked using the Scheduler, but if I can get the job done manually, I will do that.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[noknojon]

Hi Again -

Extremely big drives !!

With those sizes you only need to scan (Quick) the one operating drive for now - Others can be set for when you finish working -

Wide Glide has the right idea - Also try to set Defrag to run overnight - With that size it may take a while -

Thanks -

[ayjayar]

Hello ayjayar and Welcome

You could try going to Computer and then right click on the drive you want to scan, but this would only be a one at a time solution

Or you could try a Full Scan and un-check the Drives you do NOT want to scan(See Image) to see if this would reduce the duration of the scan time

Thank you. Buncha very helpful people here. I will enjoy participating, especially after I become a little bit more experienced.

Good ideas. I will try both, see what's more efficient. I would have liked using the Scheduler, but if I can get the job done manually, I will do that.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[exile360]

You can do it with the scheduler as well. If you use the method of unchecking the drives you don't want scanned with the Full Scan, then schedule a Full Scan, the scheduled scan will honor the settings you previously selected for your Full Scans, only scanning the selected drives.

[ayjayar]

Hello ayjayar and Welcome

You could try going to Computer and then right click on the drive you want to scan, but this would only be a one at a time solution

Or you could try a Full Scan and un-check the Drives you do NOT want to scan(See Image) to see if this would reduce the duration of the scan time

Thank you. Buncha very helpful people here. I will enjoy participating, especially after I become a little bit more experienced.

Good ideas. I will try both, see what's more efficient. I would have liked using the Scheduler, but if I can get the job done manually, I will do that.

Thanks for the suggestions.

[ayjayar]

You can do it with the scheduler as well. If you use the method of unchecking the drives you don't want scanned with the Full Scan, then schedule a Full Scan, the scheduled scan will honor the settings you previously selected for your Full Scans, only scanning the selected drives.

In fact, using Full Scan and scanning only drives that contain essential data, new downloads and OSs, I cut down the time to 2 1/2 hours, instead of 6. Makes a lot of difference when one also has scheduled virus scans, backups, and overnight downloads. This way I don't have to deal with background processes eating up resources when I start working in the morning.

Thanks ALL for the help!

[exile360]

You're very welcome

I'm glad we were able to help. If you ever need anything else please don't hesitate to post.

Thanks