When Defragmenting my hard drive it never goes past 2%. After reaching 2%, it loops back to 0. Disk Scan also fails. Disk Scan says that it has been interrupted ten times by a progarm writing to the disk. I don't think I have anything running since I closed all the start up progarms shown on the...

HI I need to defragmen my OLD computer. It's at my moms house. I tried going through the defragmentation within window BUT it ran forever BUT nothing happened. I think the defragmentation program is not on the system. IF I put the startup disk into the computer will I be able to load the defrag....

Symptom: Defragmentation hangs between 0 and 1 % percent since app. 14 hours. System: Windows 98 Second Edition Describtion: Running the defragmentation with defrag startet from the graphical user interface hangs between 0 and 1 % since app. 14 hours. The file system was checked with scandisk...

I have Windows 98SE. I am attempting to use Maintenance Wizard. I will run thru Disk Cleanup and Scan Disk fine, but the Defragmenting part of the process seems to get stuck at 10%. I have had it running over night and still all I get is 10%. Sometime I will see message file changed starting...

The defragmenting stops at 2% and starts over. TQ sha

This problem began afew days ago after I installed (with a disc)Norton Internet Security 2004. Since then, I cannot run maintenance wizard or defragment drive c by any other method. A screen message while defragmenting drive C is 0 to 1 percent complete. This message remains on screen for about 3...

I just have a quick question about defragmenting non-program files. I have a hard drive which is partitioned into three drives. My C: drive is labeled SYSTEM where all my operating system and program files are. My D: drive is where all my deleted data can be restored (labeled RECOVERED) and my...

Every time I try to defrag drive C it starts over after it reaches 3% during the "checking drive for errors" portion. This drive has not been defragged in 500 days, has over 200,000 files is 37.2 GB with 12.9 used. I had to run scandisk from DOS because it kept restarting even after following the...

C: is an 80GB hard drive. Files transferred to this partition, and other drives, and possibly the other partition I am not sure, have a 10-15 second pause before the transfer occurs. The OS is Win98SE. There are 2 controllers, I have used both in various combinations, a promise 133 and the...

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Deleted files on Floppy & Hard disk -remnants ? ================================= 1) When you delete a file from a Floppy disk -what information is left about that file ?? I know that the data may remain for the file, unless it is wiped or overwritten ? What about the Fille name, does...

I royally messed up my Works2000 and cannot remove nor reinstall it, and cannot install a new Works program because it detects the old one. Can I delete the folder from CPQDRV without messing up anything else and would this remove all traces of Works2000?

Hi. In my directory, there is c:windows/temp folder. It contains many, many subfolders. Can these be safely deleted? My disc clean up does not remove them so I am concerned I will mess up my computer if I delete them. Thank you for your assistance.

I had to short the battery on the motherboard to reset the password. now, the cd-rom and the other hard drive are not recognized. What do I Do?

Under "other devices" I have a question mark. It shows also PCI CARD and PC MASS STORAGE CONTROLLER with a yellow question mark. What can I do to fix it ?

Whenever any of the users on this PC want to dial in, the dial-in settings have been changed and need to be manually reset to the original values; the last three characters of the original username are misteriously replaced by: 7.165.58039 and the telephone number to 002463615082. The password...

I'm a law student and we take our tests via a wierd program on our laptops.. that lets us use a word processor, but blocks out all other programs... When I run the program on my windows machine I start with a batch file that logs me into the system. It is supposed to allocate my S: Drive for this...

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System: IBM Thinkpad 600, running WIN 98SE. Problem: When the system is running with no applications and virus scanner turned of core kernel processor usage varies from 65% to 70%. Possible cause: Looking in the device manager, three disk controllers are listed. The Intel 82371 AB/EB PCI...

Hi all, Urgent question Running a Dell Inspiron 7500 and the original disk Fujitsu 10Gig is about to die Trying to replace with a 30Gig Hitachi Travelstar IC25N030A Formatted, did clean install Win98SE Boots to windows, boots to DOS The disk led stays on steady, even in DOS when the machine is...