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Prob Defraging Sys Drive (C:)
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 |
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Prob Defraging Sys Drive (C:)
Already replied to in both win98.gen_discussion and win8.performance. Go there!
Please do not multipost....use crossposting instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.net/ http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "SomeOne" wrote in message ... 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 |
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