That's what I have always been told..scan FIRST THEN defrag....if I don't when I start to TRY to defrag it goes into a scan anyway... ----- Original Message ----- From: <Poppy0206@xxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 6:16 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: defrag/scandick > 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 > > 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