Is it essential to do a scan disk before degrag. And I recall when I used to use windows 98 that a scandisk I did in my c drive only took a few minutes as this one took about an hour to do. cristy To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk