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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
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- Toshiba Tecra8000 laptop - WIN98SE OS I don't use it often. Only while travelling. And I don't defrag as often as I should. Problem: I started defrag two days (56 hours) ago and it is *still* defraging. It's gotten up to around 68%, but keeps going back to the beginning, starts again and builds up to 10%, then back again, and so on ... Questions: Is this normal? Should I just let it go until the defrag is complete or stop and start again? And, if I should just let it go, how much longer might it take? Thanks, bob |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
Try defraging in Safe Mode. The reason it keeps starting is because
there is a program running in the background (Anti-Virus for example) or you have a screen saver set to go on after a period of inactivity. You can also kill uneeded processes and applications or use third party tools if you don't like doing defrag in Safe Mode, see: Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Robert Feigel wrote: Background: - Toshiba Tecra8000 laptop - WIN98SE OS I don't use it often. Only while travelling. And I don't defrag as often as I should. Problem: I started defrag two days (56 hours) ago and it is *still* defraging. It's gotten up to around 68%, but keeps going back to the beginning, starts again and builds up to 10%, then back again, and so on ... Questions: Is this normal? Should I just let it go until the defrag is complete or stop and start again? And, if I should just let it go, how much longer might it take? Thanks, bob |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
Try defraging in Safe Mode. The reason it keeps starting is because
there is a program running in the background (Anti-Virus for example) or you have a screen saver set to go on after a period of inactivity. You can also kill uneeded processes and applications or use third party tools if you don't like doing defrag in Safe Mode, see: Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Robert Feigel wrote: Background: - Toshiba Tecra8000 laptop - WIN98SE OS I don't use it often. Only while travelling. And I don't defrag as often as I should. Problem: I started defrag two days (56 hours) ago and it is *still* defraging. It's gotten up to around 68%, but keeps going back to the beginning, starts again and builds up to 10%, then back again, and so on ... Questions: Is this normal? Should I just let it go until the defrag is complete or stop and start again? And, if I should just let it go, how much longer might it take? Thanks, bob |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
On Sun, 07 May 2006 09:08:15 -0300, John John
magnanimously proffered: Try defraging in Safe Mode. The reason it keeps starting is because there is a program running in the background (Anti-Virus for example) or you have a screen saver set to go on after a period of inactivity. You can also kill uneeded processes and applications or use third party tools if you don't like doing defrag in Safe Mode, see: Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Thanks, John. After four days defrag was still only up to 60-something percent. But I closed the thing down, rebooted in safe-mode and it worked this time around! Thanks again. Cheers, Bob Robert Feigel wrote: Problem: I started defrag two days (56 hours) ago and it is *still* defraging. It's gotten up to around 68%, but keeps going back to the beginning, starts again and builds up to 10%, then back again, and so on ... Questions: Is this normal? Should I just let it go until the defrag is complete or stop and start again? "It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Wax-up and drop-in of Surfing's Golden Years: http://www.surfwriter.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
On 5/7/06 12:08 AM Robert Feigel wrote:
Background: - Toshiba Tecra8000 laptop - WIN98SE OS I don't use it often. Only while travelling. And I don't defrag as often as I should. Problem: I started defrag two days (56 hours) ago and it is *still* defraging. It's gotten up to around 68%, but keeps going back to the beginning, starts again and builds up to 10%, then back again, and so on ... Questions: Is this normal? Should I just let it go until the defrag is complete or stop and start again? And, if I should just let it go, how much longer might it take? Thanks, bob It sounds like you may have an application(s) writing to disk in the background. Click your Start Menu select Run type Msconfig execute it. When it opens up, click the Start-up Tab. Un-check all but Scanreg, Task manager, Rundll and disk compression managers if you have compressed your drive. OK. Reboot. Try running Defrag now. If it still keeps restarting locate Scandisk.exe Use your startup disk to reboot into full DOS mode. Run Scandisk /Full It may take a while. But if you have any bad sectors, it will find them and move any data out of them, fixing your HDD for Defrag. When done, remove startup disk and reboot. Try running Defrag. If you get a good defrag, you can then run Msconfig click Start-up tab and put back the stuff you unclicked. OK. Reboot. -- ________ To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!" View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
On 5/7/06 12:08 AM Robert Feigel wrote:
Background: - Toshiba Tecra8000 laptop - WIN98SE OS I don't use it often. Only while travelling. And I don't defrag as often as I should. Problem: I started defrag two days (56 hours) ago and it is *still* defraging. It's gotten up to around 68%, but keeps going back to the beginning, starts again and builds up to 10%, then back again, and so on ... Questions: Is this normal? Should I just let it go until the defrag is complete or stop and start again? And, if I should just let it go, how much longer might it take? Thanks, bob It sounds like you may have an application(s) writing to disk in the background. Click your Start Menu select Run type Msconfig execute it. When it opens up, click the Start-up Tab. Un-check all but Scanreg, Task manager, Rundll and disk compression managers if you have compressed your drive. OK. Reboot. Try running Defrag now. If it still keeps restarting locate Scandisk.exe Use your startup disk to reboot into full DOS mode. Run Scandisk /Full It may take a while. But if you have any bad sectors, it will find them and move any data out of them, fixing your HDD for Defrag. When done, remove startup disk and reboot. Try running Defrag. If you get a good defrag, you can then run Msconfig click Start-up tab and put back the stuff you unclicked. OK. Reboot. -- ________ To email me, Edit "blog" from my email address. Brian M. Kochera "Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once!" View My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~brian1951 |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
Bob Feigel wrote:
On Sun, 07 May 2006 09:08:15 -0300, John John magnanimously proffered: Try defraging in Safe Mode. The reason it keeps starting is because there is a program running in the background (Anti-Virus for example) or you have a screen saver set to go on after a period of inactivity. You can also kill uneeded processes and applications or use third party tools if you don't like doing defrag in Safe Mode, see: Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Thanks, John. After four days defrag was still only up to 60-something percent. But I closed the thing down, rebooted in safe-mode and it worked this time around! Thanks again. Cheers, Bob You're welcome. John |
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WIN98se Defrag taking days?
Bob Feigel wrote:
On Sun, 07 May 2006 09:08:15 -0300, John John magnanimously proffered: Try defraging in Safe Mode. The reason it keeps starting is because there is a program running in the background (Anti-Virus for example) or you have a screen saver set to go on after a period of inactivity. You can also kill uneeded processes and applications or use third party tools if you don't like doing defrag in Safe Mode, see: Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Thanks, John. After four days defrag was still only up to 60-something percent. But I closed the thing down, rebooted in safe-mode and it worked this time around! Thanks again. Cheers, Bob You're welcome. John |
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