My system just hangs when I try to defrag the hard drive

I have tried running it in safe mode - same result
System keeps stopping at 58 %

Windows 98 operating system

"greg v" <selket@tpg.com.au> wrote in news:40dfea12@dnews.tpgi.com.au:

Run scandisk.

"Jim Berwick" <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message
news:Xns95164597263BFjimbsnipnet@207.103.26.26...
Try defrag in safe mode.

**SS**

http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/defrag.html


On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:54:35 +1000, in
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greg v scrawled:

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

greg v wrote:
Run a full scandisk first, ie thourough I think they call it.









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http://www.bootdisk.com/

Scandisk is run as a part of defrag during the first 10% of operation.
Your problem my be related to too many nested folders. If you have a
folder - inside a folder - inside a folder - etc and the nest is more
than .... 16 I think, you will have to delete the nested folders.




Jim Berwick <jimb@snip.net> wrote in message news:<Xns95164597263BFjimbsnipnet@207.103.26.26>.. .

ron_da_voo@lycos.com (Ron Da Voo) wrote in
news:7a327bef.0406280813.276afc3e@posting.google.c om:

This is not always true, it is a setting you can enable or disable.

In article Xns95199F9DD89FDjimbsnipnet@207.103.26.26,
Jim Berwick <jimb@snip.net> said:
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-->ron_da_voo@lycos.com (Ron Da Voo) wrote in
-->news:7a327bef.0406280813.276afc3e@posting.google. com:
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-->> Scandisk is run as a part of defrag during the first 10% of
-->operation.
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-->This is not always true, it is a setting you can enable or
-->disable.
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Make sure your anti-virus program is not running.
Luke

In article <Xns95199F9DD89FDjimbsnipnet@207.103.26.26>,
Jim Berwick <jimb@snip.net> wrote:

Plus, it doesn't do a surface scan.