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Old June 1st 08, 02:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.setup
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Default Prob Defraging Sys Drive (C:)

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"SomeOne" wrote in message
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Please excuse. I am not sure if I am in the proper newsgroup. I am
shotgunning this to every Win98 newsgroup that I am coming across.

I have tried looking this up on the new, but the only thing that it relates
to is WinME

I have an old system that I uses for subscription mail.

I had about 100MB mem w/Win98SE

Due to the age of the mother board, I have to use something called EZ Bios
as I am running a hard drive that is greater than 32 gig.

I have two hard drives. Drive C, E, and F are logical drive and Drive D is
a single 4 Gig hard driv. Problem is this. I keep getting messages from
Norton stating that Drive C is heavily fragmented (over 82%) and needs to
have defrag run on it. When I try and run any of the following software;
Norton Disk Doctor, Optimization Wizard, Speed Disk, Win98 Scan Disk or
Win98 Disk Defrag, I get the following message "Unable to operate on Drive C
because it is in use by unknown disk utility. Please close unknown disk
utility to operate on Drive C".

Now I use Drive C as my system drive and I put nothing on the drive
directly. When I try and install, I try and have everything go to Drive E;
however, sometimes software does not give me that option.

I have turned off everything that I can find. Have to be careful if I boot
in DOS and try this as I am not sure of the EZ Bios would be working and I
do not want to screw up Drive C (Defrag might not see complete Drive C, etc)

I would appreciate any and all help. One thing, I really would prefer not
to have to reformat Drive C. Drive C is 7.3 Gig with 5.6 Gig free.

Thanks in advance

SomeOne