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Scandisk & Defrag won't complete
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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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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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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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...t/default.aspx In Memorium: Alex Nichol http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/nichol.mspx Your cooperation is very appreciated. ------ "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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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. ------ "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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