-=PCTechTalk=- Re: HELP! Can't Defrag!
- From: "zat" <zzzatso@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 05:36:23 -0800
What brand of hard drive do you have? Maxtor, Western Digital and others
have diagnostic programs that you can test your drive with. They can be
downloaded from the manufacturer's website. A generic program is called
Drive Fitness Test, you can Google it. You may or may not have some lost
clusters. What does Windows report? Also how much free space do you have on
the drive? You need at least 10-15% free or Windows won't defrag.
If you can't find a copy of DFT then email me off list and I'd be happy to
send you a zipped copy of it, it's 85kb in size.
hth,
zat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cajun" <cajun@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "PCTechTalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:55 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- HELP! Can't Defrag!
> This is the second time in two months that I've encountered this problem.
I'm running Windows 98. Last month when I ran Norton Speed Disk, it
wouldn't defrag my drive because of errors. Norton Disk Doctor revealed 5
lost clusters and asked if I wanted to fix them and back the files up. I
said yes, but it would just cycle through that over and over without fixing
the errors. Windows Defrag would run, but I was afraid of what might happen
when it hit the lost clusters that Norton's couldn't fix, so I didn't run
it. I tried to run it and fix the error for several days, then left it
alone for several days. A few days later I ran Norton's again and it
defragged without any errors.
> Now Norton's is saying I have 7 lost clusters and it's doing the same
thing, cycling through over and over and not fixing the errors. When I open
Speed Disk, I get an error message that says there's an error in
tvdebug.log. This logs contains a bunch of gibberish with a little English
here and there and I can't tell anything.
>
> Both times I get messages that my FAT tables don't match. What should I
do?
>
> Thanks! : )
>
> dj
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