My problem is two-fold, but both are related to defragmenting my c:
drive. I had not realized it but my TaskScheduler has not been running, for
a while. I thought that the defrag program has been running once a month
since last year, but in fact it has not run since Jan 04! I deleted the old
schedule, and reset it to run once a month, only there is a problem.
Once I reach the end of the TaskScheduler wizard, this msg pops up:
"The new task has been created but may not run because the account
info could not be set. The specific error is: 0x8007007a: The data area
passed to a system call is too small."
I have no clue what that means so I tried to defrag manually, that is
where I encountered the blue screen. When the defrag gets to 3% the blue
screen comes up and says this:
"A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly
exited or been terminated.
Technical Info: STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x82CFE75C,
0x805F9F88)."
So, I can't schedule defrag to run, and I can't get it to run manually.
It hasn't been run since early 04, I think that I definitely need to defrag
my c: drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I forgot to say this in my 1st post, but I have tried running chkdsk /f c:.
I tried to defrag after chkdsk finished, but I still get the blue screen of
death.

Hi

Please try the following link to Jim Eshelman's web page - right hand column
(F4)

http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm

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"king_bob" <kingbob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D284C32-D891-4826-A352-52FE9B2351A1@microsoft.com...
> My problem is two-fold, but both are related to defragmenting my c:
> drive. I had not realized it but my TaskScheduler has not been running,
> for
> a while. I thought that the defrag program has been running once a month
> since last year, but in fact it has not run since Jan 04! I deleted the
> old
> schedule, and reset it to run once a month, only there is a problem.
> Once I reach the end of the TaskScheduler wizard, this msg pops up:
> "The new task has been created but may not run because the account
> info could not be set. The specific error is: 0x8007007a: The data area
> passed to a system call is too small."
> I have no clue what that means so I tried to defrag manually, that is
> where I encountered the blue screen. When the defrag gets to 3% the blue
> screen comes up and says this:
> "A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly
> exited or been terminated.
> Technical Info: STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x82CFE75C,
> 0x805F9F88)."
> So, I can't schedule defrag to run, and I can't get it to run
> manually.
> It hasn't been run since early 04, I think that I definitely need to
> defrag
> my c: drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>

king_bob Wrote:
> My problem is two-fold, but both are related to defragmenting my c:
> drive. I had not realized it but my TaskScheduler has not been
> running, for
> a while. I thought that the defrag program has been running once a
> month
> since last year, but in fact it has not run since Jan 04! I deleted
> the old
> schedule, and reset it to run once a month, only there is a problem.
> Once I reach the end of the TaskScheduler wizard, this msg pops up:
> "The new task has been created but may not run because the account
> info could not be set. The specific error is: 0x8007007a: The data
> area
> passed to a system call is too small."
> I have no clue what that means so I tried to defrag manually, that is
> where I encountered the blue screen. When the defrag gets to 3% the
> blue
> screen comes up and says this:
> "A process or thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly
> exited or been terminated.
> Technical Info: STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003, 0x82CFE75C,
> 0x805F9F88)."
> So, I can't schedule defrag to run, and I can't get it to run
> manually.
> It hasn't been run since early 04, I think that I definitely need to
> defrag
> my c: drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Have you tried running any third party tool? Personally i would
recommend some third party tool (i believe some free ones too) to do
the job without hassles. If u want to schedule it to run regularly or
frequently, there are specialized software with advanced scheduling
features which will also run without interrupting other functions.


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ppcc

Thank you for your posts Denny and ppcc. Before I could try your
suggestions I ran defrag again just for the hell of it and it worked. I was
relieved that it worked but hopefully when it next runs I won't see anymore
blue screens of death. Thanks again.