Defrag of C drive
 

I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

MANY THANKS,

Please use upper and lower case letters when posting--all CAPS are hard on
the eyes.
See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html



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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

" wrote in message
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I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

MANY THANKS,

Kanaiya wrote:
My dear friend

First Make sure that No other Programme u r using when
Defraging

And also

Please do scandisk Before Doing Defrag and be sure About
Bad sctors in HDD

Kanaiya

-----Original Message-----
I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

MANY THANKS,
.

If you still have problems try running it in safe mode. Press F8 during
boot up.

My dear friend

First Make sure that No other Programme u r using when
Defraging

And also

Please do scandisk Before Doing Defrag and be sure About
Bad sctors in HDD

Kanaiya
-----Original Message-----
I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

MANY THANKS,
.

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:06:39 -0700, "
wrote:

I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

Check Control Panel for something called "Fast Find".

It behaves like a virus, no one tells you about it, and if you ask about it
people advise you re reformat your disk and re-install Windows, which of
coriouse reinstals it.


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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

Excuse, please?

"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
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Check Control Panel for something called "Fast Find".

It behaves like a virus,

No, it does not.

no one tells you about it,

It's documented in the Microsoft Office suite and on the Microsoft site.

and if you ask about it people advise you re reformat your
disk and re-install Windows, which of coriouse reinstals it.

Wrong on many counts. No one here advises to reinstall Windows because of
FindFast (that's the CORRECT name for it, by the way). It can be disabled
as shown he

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q158705

And finally, it's installed by MICROSOFT OFFICE, not MICROSOFT WINDOWS.


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Nobody in these groups would get away with telling someone to do that. Fast
find does not behave like a virus--it is merely a "bad" feature that should
be shut off since it costs more in performance than it is worth (my
opinion). And, reinstalling Windows has nothing to do with fast find as it
is an Office feature.

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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"Steve Hayes" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:06:39 -0700, "
wrote:

I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

Check Control Panel for something called "Fast Find".

It behaves like a virus, no one tells you about it, and if you ask about
it
people advise you re reformat your disk and re-install Windows, which of
coriouse reinstals it.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop
uk

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:02:34 -0500, "Ron Badour" wrote:

Nobody in these groups would get away with telling someone to do that. Fast
find does not behave like a virus--it is merely a "bad" feature that should
be shut off since it costs more in performance than it is worth (my
opinion). And, reinstalling Windows has nothing to do with fast find as it
is an Office feature.
I was responding to the original poster, as one of the things that can cause
defrag to stop is a program trying to access the hard disk.

I also didn't intend to imply that anyone here had given the advice to
reformat. But others did. I found that there was a lot of hard disk activity
that would eventually slow my computer down, and I did not know what was
causing it. I asked on other forums (NOT this one, and everyone suggested that
it might be caused by a virus.

It stopped me from defragmenting the disk.

I would press the reset button every few hours hours. The only advice anyone
gave me was reformat and reinstal, until someone suggested the Find Fast
thingy. I checked it, changed the settings, and the problem disappeared.

When I installed it, I did not expect it to behave like that, and it was
certainly virus-like behaviour.




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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

I am asking for my son. His pc will not shut down without
pressing the power button. When he tries to run scandisk
I had him stop all programs but wsup and wtoolsa keep
running and tell him he cannot delete them either.
Scandisk just keeps starting over and over...
-----Original Message-----
Please use upper and lower case letters when posting--all
CAPS are hard on
the eyes.
See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html



--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"
wrote in message
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I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND
RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

MANY THANKS,


.

Wtoolsa: http://www.pchell.com/support/wintools.shtml


--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"ken" wrote in message
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I am asking for my son. His pc will not shut down without
pressing the power button. When he tries to run scandisk
I had him stop all programs but wsup and wtoolsa keep
running and tell him he cannot delete them either.
Scandisk just keeps starting over and over...
-----Original Message-----
Please use upper and lower case letters when posting--all
CAPS are hard on
the eyes.
See the defrag and scandisk troubleshooters located he
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/how_to.html



--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

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wrote in message
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I CANNOT GET THE "C" DRIVE DEFRAGE TO COMPLETE AND
RECORD
IT'S PROGRESS.IT GOES TO 10% AND JUST KEEPS REPEATING
WITHOUT GOING TO 100% AS IN THE PAST.ANY SUGGESTIONS ON
CORRECTING?

MANY THANKS,


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