On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 01:10:03 -0700, "zaq" <zaqs72@hotmail.com> wrote:

Reboot your PC into Safe Mode by pressing the F5 or F8 key during the boot
process - disable all peripherals - run scandisk and defrag from there.
You will not have any loaded applications running in the "background" that
normally would cause scandisk and defrag to continue restarting.

HTH


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