Thanks for the idea Jack, I will certainly do as you
suggest.


-----Original Message-----
The free ScanDefrag is the most advanced disk
maintenance
program there is. It runs Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and
Disk
Defragmenter. It's easy to setup and use, and it can
deal with
problems like "drive's contents have changed:
restarting...".
Get it and read about all the options it has that you
can use.

http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2...efrag/main.htm
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

--
Jack E. Martinelli 2002-05 MS MVP for
Shell/User / DTS
Help us help you: http://www.dts-L.org/goodpost.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/secu...tect/default.a
spx
In Memorium: Alex Nichol
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...e/meetexperts/
nichol.mspx
Your cooperation is very appreciated.
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"Joanne" wrote in
message
...
Sorry but I am new at this. You also may get two
messages
as I got cut off half way through and am repeating this
one. Okay, I will stick to safe mode in future. Defrag
just stopped at 57% with no error message. I waited 10
minutes and nothing happened, should I have waited
longer? My hard disc is 40Gb and I have used 23. I
also
have a Firewall and Anti virus. Just noticed today a
second problem, I get no sound when I try to play a cd
on
my Media Player, again no error message. Could these
problems be connected? Thank you for you help.


-----Original Message-----
Why did you try and run scandisk in normal mode?
You've
established that
it runs in Safe Mode and that should be sufficient.
There can be many
reasons why it runs in Safe Mode but not in Normal mode
including having
your disk set up as a single large partition and having
other applications
such as anti-virus and firewalls running and writing
logs
to your hard
disk all of which meaning that scandisk exits early
before completing its
work.

Turning now to your Defrag problems, again I would
advise
you to stick to
Safe Mode and forget about running defrag in normal
mode. You say it
stops at 57%. What was the error message you saw at
this
time? How big
is your hard disk? How much free space do you have on
the hard disk?

You might want to try deleting the contents of the
folder
C:\Windows\Applog. This may help speed up defrag but
you
won't get the
placement of files optimised in the same away you would
have it you hadn't
deleted the contents of the Applog folder. Problems in
this area usually
throw up a DEFRAG00205 error when defragging. For more
details see MS KB
238165 - "Defrag Error Message: ID NoEFRAG00205"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=238165).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Joanne wrote:

Mike Maltby. I followed your instructions step by
step
and got into Safe mode okay using MSconfig; and
Scandisk
worked perfectly but Defrag stopped at 57%. I then
came
out of Safe mode and went into Normal and ran
Scandisk
again and it stopped at about 20%. Defrag also
stopped
in
Normal again at 57%. I am now at a loss as to what
to
do. Can you help me further please. This is
driving me
crazy.

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