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April 28th 05, 07:42 PM
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Incomplete Defragmentation
I have been trying to defrag my 4 GB hard drive. My problem is it won't
complete the defrag cycle. It will get to 10% and then recycle back to the beginning and start over again. I have left it running over night for two days now and it never gets beyond 10%. It appears to be working but when it recycles back to the beginning there is free space showing at the beginning of the drive with black clusters mixed in with the blue clusters. I have closed the screen saver, all programs and logged of the Internet. I have checked it for virus and spyware. What else can I do to solve the problem? -- HR 
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April 28th 05, 08:45 PM
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"healeyron" wrote in message
... I have been trying to defrag my 4 GB hard drive. My problem is it won't complete the defrag cycle. It will get to 10% and then recycle back to the beginning and start over again. I have left it running over night for two days now and it never gets beyond 10%. It appears to be working but when it recycles back to the beginning there is free space showing at the beginning of the drive with black clusters mixed in with the blue clusters. I have closed the screen saver, all programs and logged of the Internet. I have checked it for virus and spyware. What else can I do to solve the problem? Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 28th 05, 08:45 PM
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Incomplete Defragmentation
"healeyron" wrote in message
... I have been trying to defrag my 4 GB hard drive. My problem is it won't complete the defrag cycle. It will get to 10% and then recycle back to the beginning and start over again. I have left it running over night for two days now and it never gets beyond 10%. It appears to be working but when it recycles back to the beginning there is free space showing at the beginning of the drive with black clusters mixed in with the blue clusters. I have closed the screen saver, all programs and logged of the Internet. I have checked it for virus and spyware. What else can I do to solve the problem? Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 29th 05, 12:56 PM
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Your response was spot on. However this was the first time in the five year
that I have owned this computor that I have had to defrag in the safe mode. Don't know why, but at least I am able to defrag the unit. I do thank you for your help in leading me out of my frustration. Healeyron Goodrich, MI Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 29th 05, 12:56 PM
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Incomplete Defragmentation
Your response was spot on. However this was the first time in the five year
that I have owned this computor that I have had to defrag in the safe mode. Don't know why, but at least I am able to defrag the unit. I do thank you for your help in leading me out of my frustration. Healeyron Goodrich, MI Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 29th 05, 05:07 PM
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"healeyron" wrote in message ... Your response was spot on. However this was the first time in the five year that I have owned this computor that I have had to defrag in the safe mode. Don't know why, but at least I am able to defrag the unit. I do thank you for your help in leading me out of my frustration. Healeyron Goodrich, MI Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Perhaps a new program is monitoring something, such as the cpu temp, updates, etc. Also you should run scandisk just before defragging.
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April 29th 05, 05:07 PM
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Incomplete Defragmentation
"healeyron" wrote in message ... Your response was spot on. However this was the first time in the five year that I have owned this computor that I have had to defrag in the safe mode. Don't know why, but at least I am able to defrag the unit. I do thank you for your help in leading me out of my frustration. Healeyron Goodrich, MI Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) Perhaps a new program is monitoring something, such as the cpu temp, updates, etc. Also you should run scandisk just before defragging.
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April 29th 05, 08:46 PM
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This is the first time you have had a app which freqquently write to the
disk. "healeyron" wrote in message ... Your response was spot on. However this was the first time in the five year that I have owned this computor that I have had to defrag in the safe mode. Don't know why, but at least I am able to defrag the unit. I do thank you for your help in leading me out of my frustration. Healeyron Goodrich, MI Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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April 29th 05, 08:46 PM
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Incomplete Defragmentation
This is the first time you have had a app which freqquently write to the
disk. "healeyron" wrote in message ... Your response was spot on. However this was the first time in the five year that I have owned this computor that I have had to defrag in the safe mode. Don't know why, but at least I am able to defrag the unit. I do thank you for your help in leading me out of my frustration. Healeyron Goodrich, MI Reboot into Safe Mode (usually by holding down Ctl while rebooting) and then Defrag. The Defrag utility restarts whenever anything new is written to the drive, so a "clean boot" is desirable before using it. Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
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