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Message from Disk Defragmenter
Gerry Cornell g...@btinternet.com microsoft public win98 performance  need to get scandisk to work to have any chance with Disk Defragmenter. When scandisk seems to stall it often means it has encountered a bad cluster ( bad sector ) on the hard disk. This it will try to repair and the process can take quite a

Disk Defragmenter
Background tasks write to disk (eg to virtual memory) and cause the defragmenter to start all over again. On Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:15:00 +0100, "robin.paterson" <robin.pater...@ntlworld.com> wrote: Windows 98/2 disk defrag doesnt work - stays on 0% complete, occasionally making 1% and back to 0. Also, skan disc keeps

Disk Defragmenter Freezes
Bob I bire...@yahoo.com microsoft public win2000 general Windows 2000 does not have "Scandisk". run r-click on the drive and select properties and Tools then Check Now. wayno wrote: In trying to speed up my computer, I tried to run scandisk and also disk defragmenter both unsuccessfully.

Vista - Disk defragmenter
Thorsten Matzner tmatz...@gmx.net alt windows-xp "Stephen Sobol" <so...@sympatico.ca> wrote: I've been trying to defragment my C drive with the Disk Defragmenter provided by Windows XP Home Edition but have been experiencing somewhat of an annoying problem as of late. When it attempts to analyze the disk,

najbolji disk defragmenter?
"Clamar" <cla...@skynet.be> a écrit dans le message de news:17409C14-D3F2-44F0-AD2A-3C03EC54EB05@microsoft.com... Under Windows XP, disk defrag allows an analysis of the disk before starting Defrag. How to have this analysis under Vista defrag before starting the process Thanks Claude.

disk defragmenter
I have even unchecked the option to check disk for errors when running disk defragmenter, but it still comes up with the error message and request to run scan disk. Is there anything else that I can try short of a clean install to solve this problem? Could my disk be going bad? TIA Mick Vause.

error message: disk defragmenter is not installed
Hyper j...@snip.net alt windows98 Maniac wrote: I am having a problem when I am using disk defragmenter for windows 98. It defragments for exactly five minutes then says "drive contents changed, restarting..." it restarts and then goes to the place where it left off from. It keeps doing this every five minutes and

Vista - Disk defragmenter
I do not understand how a disk defragmenter will keep win2k from hackers, (firewall) viruses (anti-virus)? DisKeeper is not a firewall and anti-virus, it's a disk defragmenter. "Emperor Agente de la Cabala, Numero Uno of AHM" wrote: "Wyoming Knott" <w...@earthlink.net> wrote in message

Disk Defragmenter
Gerry Cornell g...@tenretnitb.com microsoft public windowsxp general Susan Have you tried running Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode? How large is your hard disk and how much free space? The amount of free space is very important when running Disk Defragmenter. A minimum of 15% is required but sometimes 20% is

Can't run Scandisk or Disk Defragmenter
In some cases, Disk Defragmenter may seem to stop responding (hang). This problem frequently occurs when Disk Defragmenter is between 5 and 10 percent finished. CAUSE ===== This problem can occur when Disk Defragmenter encounters an area on the hard disk that takes a long time to defragment, but for which Disk

Disk Defragmenter hung after 12%. Now what?
I have attempted to start my Disk Defragmenter numerous times and it fails to begin the defragmentation process. I get the Defragmenting Drive window, but the progress bar never changes from 0% Complete. The three-dimensional animated icon indicates activity; however, I can leave the defragmenter running overnight

Disk Defragmenter
When I attempt to defrag a 9.1 GB hdd, I get this message: Volume DGVS09U (D:) has 20% free space, but only 8% is available for use by Disk Defragmenter. To run effectively, Disk Defragmenter requires at least 15% usable free space. Before Running Disk Defragmenter, you should delete some files or move files to

disk defragmenter protects against viruses, Internet hackers ...
Andrew E. eckric...@msn.com microsoft public windowsxp general Try running disk clean up utility before defrag,also what cmd was entered. "David Stewart" wrote: When I try to run Disk defragmenter from a command line, I get " another command line or GUI defragmenter is already running. Only one instance of Windows

Disk Defragmenter
Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca comp os ms-windows apps utilities win3x On 23 Nov 1997, jhs5...@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Jared Saks) wrote: I have Windows 3.1 and my disk defragmenter somehow got deleted. If you have a defrag program that I can have, please email it to me at jhs5...@garnet.acns.fsu.edu It will help,

Disk Defragmenter doesn't go past 1%
See "Disk Defragmenter May Seem to Stop Responding" at http://www.microsoft. com/kb/articles/q136/8/36.htm Here are the relevant parts: SYMPTOMS When you run Disk Defragmenter, the progress gauge may not move for a long time, even though it seems that the hard disk is being accessed. In some cases, Disk Defragmenter

Disk Defragmenter
I have been trying to run Scandisk and Disk Defragmenter but both programs won't finish. Scandisk keeps restarting until I get a message telling me that Windows or some other program is writing to the drive and advises me to close the programs that are currently running and run Scandisk again.

disk defragmenter
Thomas matt...@atlantis.stortek.com comp programming Andrew Lee wrote: Hello fellow readers, I was just wondering what type of algorithms are employed behind the scenes of a hard disk defragmenter (eg Microsoft's Disk Defragmenter). Is this type of problem "difficult" (ie NP-hard - mathematics term for a class of

Scan disk and Disk Defragmenter
Will Denny willde...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain Hi Have you installed any new apps/drivers since the problem started? Try typing the following from Start>Run to see if either/both of those apps. will run: Disk Cleanup - cleanmgr.exe Defrag - dfrg.msc -- Will Denny MS MVP Windows Shell/User

Disk Defragmenter
When I try to run Disk Defragmenter is saying that volume D have 14% free space but only 0% is available for use by Disk Defragmenter. Formatting and restoring is not an option - so I am looking for an utility that can help me to make some free space for Disk Defrag to be run. The other question is why Disk Defrag

Disk Defragmenter
Ken Blake, MVP kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windowsxp basics Gerry Cornell wrote: Ken Logically after Disk Defragmenter has finished you would expect to see blue blocks with green ( immovable blocks ) and some tiny red blocks interspersed within the blue and white ( free space ) then