[mso] Defragmentation question
- From: Ronald Hren <rghren@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:10:26 -0800 (PST)
I have an older Gateway PC running Windows 98SE that is networked to a newer
PC running Windows XP via an ethernet router. As part of routine maintenance
I've tried defragmenting the single hard disk (C:) on the older PC and so far
I've been totally unsuccessful with the defragmentation. Here is what happens.
After I've initiated the disk defragmentation utility, the basic defrag
window appears and I click on "Show Details". The larger detail window appears
and what I observe in the lower left hand corner of this window are alternating
instances of the following two text strings: "Reading drive information..."
followed a few seconds later by, "Drive's contents changed: restarting...".
These two messages will alternate forever until I run out of patience and stop
the defragmentation. I've concluded that some application is running in the
background and somehow changing something on the disk.
I then did a "Ctrl-Alt-Del" to view the list of applications running and
have not identified anything that appears to be interferring with the defrag
operation. I also disabled the screensaver thinking that this might be changing
the contents of the hard disk but the behavior remained the same.
At this point, I'm completed frustrated that I cannot perform a disk
defragmentation on this PC. Does anyone have any idea what exactly is happening
and what I can do to successfully perform a disk defragmentation?
Ron Hren
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