- How do you defrag a hard drive?
- Posted by SiKing on August 17th, 2003
I am having problems with defrag on my compy.
It's a Win98SE Dell Latitude. When I run defrag, it gets through only
about 4% of the disk and then complains that there are errors on the drive
that must be corrected first. Here is what I tried:
1. Run scandisk in standard mode, as suggested by the attached help file.
Came up with nothing!
2. Run scandisk in through mode. Came up also with nothing.
3. Go through the systems tasks (the Ctrl-Alt-Delete screen) and kill
everything except Explorer and Systray.
4. Run Disk Cleanup.
5. Update my virus patterns and check the entire system for viruses.
6. Close all windows and reboot. 
None of these fixed the problem. Anyone have any other suggestions?
TIA, SiKing.
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- Posted by Charlie on August 17th, 2003
Hi,
Try the defrag in safe mode. All the extra stuff that causes conflicts
would be turne off. Good luck.
Charlie
SiKing wrote:
- Posted by philo on August 17th, 2003
SiKing wrote:
other things to try;
empty your internet cache and tmp files
or else try running defrag in safe mode
- Posted by °Mike° on August 17th, 2003
Follow the instruction here:
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html
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- Posted by les.watson on August 20th, 2003
Use Cont Alt Delete and close all programmes except defrag and Explorer
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- Posted by Boomer on August 20th, 2003
les.watson said:
It's Explorer and Systray. Also see his item #3.
He's done that.
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Above.
- Posted by Kraftee on August 20th, 2003
Boomer wrote:
Don't need Systray for Defrag to work......
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- Posted by michaelplaw on August 20th, 2003
If you want to de-frag your hard drive then I suggest you go here and
download VOPT for windows.
http://www.goldenbow.com/index.html
You can defrag a 10 gigabyte hard drive in about 10 mins whilst you're
actually in windows. Dead easy to use too.
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