[mso] Re: Defragmentation question
- From: "Dian D. Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:44:56 -0600
See Linda's article on defrag:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=472
Dian D. Chapman
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-----Original Message-----
From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Ronald Hren
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 4:10 PM
To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [mso] Defragmentation question
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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