[CTS] Re: Won't Defrag
- From: "Elaine Gairy" <Gairy@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 17:51:46 -0500
I just completed a defrag in regular mode. I turned off everything running
in the background except Explorer and systray. I did it twice with no
problem. I will set it up to defrag once a week. Thanks all for your help.
Elaine
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cuffy10@xxxxxxx>
To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: [CTS] Re: Won't Defrag
| In a message dated 12/3/02 7:14:52 AM Pacific Standard Time,
Gairy@xxxxxxxxxx
| writes:
|
| > "Drives contents changed,
| > restarting". Finally it made it through the process. Any ideas what
would
| > make this happen.
| >
|
| Running from Safe Mode should prevent any changes in drive contents.
| If I had to make a WAG I would guess that the drive had not been defragged
in
| a long time and was a total mess or the drive is low on space and Defrag
| couldn't shuffle the contents around enough in one pass to defrag it
| completely. The restarting may have been just a temporary measure to find
a
| place to put data until space was cleared to place the data in contiguous
| clusters.
| I would run Defrag again and then again in a couple of days. Regarding
third
| party defraggers........ I have never found them necessary. I use the
defrag
| app from ME on this Win98 First Edition and when run on a weekly basis it
| takes under one minute per gig to defrag. If I immediately run it a second
| time it will finish before I can get back from the coffee pot.
| If it's a problem to run Scandisk and Defrag regularly put them both on
the
| Task Scheduler for a weekly cleanup.
|
|
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