2 probs: scandisk hangs, defrag slow

Setup is as follows:
Thinkpad 600e, std internal hdd (C-drive), external hdd via USB caddy
(D-drive). Win98SE

Prob1.
Scan of C-drive hangs after finding lost strings(?) will not autofix of
allow manual fix. tried running it in safemode, still hangs.
Scan of D-drive works fine.

Prob 2.
Defrag of C-drive is OK (provided scan option is deselected) but defrag of
D-drive is painfully slow (it took 9 hours to defrag 17% of 8gB then I gave
up and cancelled).
Can I slip this drive into the C-drive slot and then defrag from the win98se
cd-rom?

All replies welcomed, thanks in advance.

It sounds like scandisk is running into a corrupt file. See if this info
helps:

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



"stefaroo" wrote in message
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Setup is as follows:
Thinkpad 600e, std internal hdd (C-drive), external hdd via USB caddy
(D-drive). Win98SE

Prob1.
Scan of C-drive hangs after finding lost strings(?) will not autofix of
allow manual fix. tried running it in safemode, still hangs.
Scan of D-drive works fine.

Prob 2.
Defrag of C-drive is OK (provided scan option is deselected) but defrag of
D-drive is painfully slow (it took 9 hours to defrag 17% of 8gB then I
gave
up and cancelled).
Can I slip this drive into the C-drive slot and then defrag from the
win98se
cd-rom?

All replies welcomed, thanks in advance.

Hi Ron

Just before I read your reply I managed to get scandisk of c-drive to run in
safe mode, it completed quick and repaired all errors. Haven't looked at the
bootlog yet but I should be fine from now on with this problem.

Any thoughts on the other problem? I know defrag will be slow via USB but is
my suggestion worth a shot or will I be barking up the wrong tree.

Thanks for your attention.

I have no experience with an external drive so I really have no advice to
offer on it. The W98 defrag utility is very slow so you might look at 3rd
party defrag programs and see if one of them helps. Do a search on
google.com and you probably can come up with a free one or maybe someone
will provide a name in response to this post.
--
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



"stefaroo" wrote in message
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Hi Ron

Just before I read your reply I managed to get scandisk of c-drive to run
in
safe mode, it completed quick and repaired all errors. Haven't looked at
the
bootlog yet but I should be fine from now on with this problem.

Any thoughts on the other problem? I know defrag will be slow via USB but
is
my suggestion worth a shot or will I be barking up the wrong tree.

Thanks for your attention.

Hi Ron

Decided to circumvent this ddrive defrag problem by buying a caddy to put
the 2nd hdd in the bay where the cdrom is.

Thanks again,

Stefaroo