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windowsmeuser - 14 May 2004 12:56 GMT

Im having trouble defragmenting the hard disk, defrag
starts and hangs there. If i try the disc scan it starts
and after a while a windows pops up to tell me there are
other programs runnining- but I dont see any. can anybody
help ?

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Mike M - 14 May 2004 13:40 GMT

Boot into Safe Mode and run defrag from there. This should minimise the
number of background applications you have running. You may also want to
disable your AV application whilst running defrag.

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> Im having trouble defragmenting the hard disk, defrag
> starts and hangs there. If i try the disc scan it starts
> and after a while a windows pops up to tell me there are
> other programs runnining- but I dont see any. can anybody
> help ?

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Roger Sapolsky - 30 May 2004 13:34 GMT

> Boot into Safe Mode and run defrag from there. This should minimise the
> number of background applications you have running. You may also want to
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> > other programs runnining- but I dont see any. can anybody
> > help ?

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 14 May 2004 16:47 GMT

Use ScanDefrag as a scheduled task in Normal Mode,
run it at night while you sleep.
http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2/scandefrag/main.htm
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

If you have a problem, switch to Restrictive Mode like
it says in the ReadMe.

>-----Original Message-----
>Im having trouble defragmenting the hard disk, defrag
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>help ?
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Gerry C - 14 May 2004 18:32 GMT

Same here, do you have Norton AV running? is it writing to
disk and resetting?

>-----Original Message-----
>Im having trouble defragmenting the hard disk, defrag
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>help ?
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