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Disc Defragmenter
Just curious. Does the disk defragmenter in Win 98 overwrite the empty space on the disk when it defragments? I know the defragmentation process reorganizes disk data so everything gets put back in its place for more efficient access, but what about overwriting empty space? Thanks. Bob.

Disk Defragmenter in dual boot environment
CAUSE ===== This error occurs when Disk Defragmenter is unable to read from or write to one or more bad sectors on the hard disk. The DEFRAG005 error message is displayed when Disk Defragmenter is unable to write to a sector. The DEFRAG006 error message is displayed when Disk Defragmenter is unable to read from a

disk defragmenter
Clamar cla...@skynet.be microsoft public fr windows vista administration 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 problem
Hi, I have a 45 GB hard drive and started running disk defrag. The defragging was working as normal but then about when it said it was about 56% finished it started all over again from 0% and this occurred over and over again. Now I understand you should close any apps and I disabled Norton antivirus and my palm

disk defragmenter protects against viruses, Internet hackers ...
Bert Kinney b...@NSmvps.org microsoft public win98 apps Hi Mark Here are a few troubleshooting tips to consider when Scandisk and Disk Defragmenter (Defrag) don't run correctly: 1. Restart to the Command Prompt and do a thorough Scandisk on the drive first and repair any errors. Restart the computer.

Question about disk defragmenter.
Ensure that your volume has at least 15% free space> A volume must have at least 15% free space for Disk Defragmenter to completely and adequately defragment it. Disk Defragmenter uses this space as a sorting area for file fragments. If a volume has less than 15% free space, Disk Defragmenter will only partially

Disk Defragmenter
Eric Legge legge...@aol.comnojunk microsoft public win98 internet outlookexpress Subject: Disk Defragmenter From: "Geoffrey" sj...@shaw.ca Date: 15/09/02 14:47 Pacific Daylight Time Message-id: <126c001c25d01$86d917c0$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12> I try running the Disk Defragmenter and get the message "Drive Contents

disk defragmenter hangs
%windir%\system32\compmgmt.msc /a If that opens without error, select Disk Defragmenter in the tree view. Try defragmenting. If that works ok. Your dfrg.msc is damaged. To make a new undamaged copy of dfrg.msc do the following. If Computer Management is still open, close it. START > Run... > MMC File > Add/Remove

Defragmenter problem
When I open Disk Defragmenter, the program opens up ... at the top, it says "Disk Defragmenter". Under that are 4 folder topics: File Action View Help and under that, it says: Mauzey (C:) NTSF 112 78.53 70% Under that there is no more writing ... there are 4 or 5 radio buttons to be pressed, but no labels on the

windows 2000 server - scheduling disk defragmenter
This is because when a writable file is open, NTFS attempts to allocate additional space to help prevent fragmentation as the file grows. Because Disk Defragmenter does not allow the extra space to be moved and consolidated while the file is open, the extra space is shown as additional fragments in the report.

Disk defragmenter problem in Win95
Rob Stow rob.s...@sasktel.net microsoft public win2000 general daniel wrote: when trying to run disk defragmenter (system tool), I get the following message : although you have 19% free space on volume, only 2% is available to defragmenter......... My disk was almost full and I deleted or moved a lot of files but

defrag problems
Brian Albright Albright.Br...@gmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general A picture is worth a thousand words. http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragot4.jpg After defragging about 10 times with 2 different defragmenting softwares, the picture is what I'm left with. almost all of the files are in the first

Can't defrag partition!
Alias iamal...@removethisgmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general Brian Albright wrote: A picture is worth a thousand words. http://img407.imageshack.us/my.php?image=defragot4.jpg After defragging about 10 times with 2 different defragmenting softwares, the picture is what I'm left with. almost all of the files

Vista - Disk defragmenter
Disk Defragmenter in Windows 98 actually fragments applications to make them load faster. Taskmon, which runs in the background, stores data on your applications in .LGC files in the Windows\Applog folder. Disk Defragmenter examines these files to know how to optimize your hard drive then writes its own information

Vista - Disk defragmenter
But when I go back to Disk Defragmenter, it tell me something wrong and refuse to continue. I notice the Defragmenter only have this problem when I select the "arranage program for best performance" and "detect disk error. But it never tell me which file is the one that cause the problem. That is poor programming

Disk Defragmenter eror
Jeremy Hannon jer...@quad-s.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Sarah wrote: I have a silly question about the disk defragmenter. The first time I used disk defragmenter on my new comp- (windows xp.) it just happened to be on the same night where I ended up removing my cd-rom drive by accident.

Re : Vista - Disk defragmenter
Alias al...@aliasmail.com microsoft public windowsxp general pfermar wrote: Hi a few days ago I did a clean instalation of windows xp sp2, and yasterday I used a disk clean up, but when a tried to use disk defragmenter it's open as a notepad file, how I can get that back without reinstal windows again?

disk defragmenter
A volume must have at least 15% free space for Disk Defragmenter to completely and adequately defragment it.If a volume has less than 15% free space, Disk Defragmenter will only partially defragment it. To increase the free space on a volume, delete unneeded files or move them to another disk.

defrag hangs
I had heard that there is a glitch in Windows 2000 that does not allow the disk defragmenter to work. I have a Hewlett Packard Pavilion 7850, 933MHz Pentium III processor, and a 40 GB hard drive. I have had it for about 1 1/2 years and would like to defrag my hard drive but when I try it gets to 1% and starts over.

problem with defrag on win95 machine..
I've ran DISK DEFRAGMENTER before with no problems. Today I wanted to DISK DEFRAGMENT, and for some reason my hard drive is changing in the middle of a DISK DEFRAGMENTER and causing DISK DEFRAGMENTER to restart from the beginning after running for about a minute. So it gets nowhere. Even though I had DISK