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Chris - 28 Jun 2004 14:19 GMT

I tried defragging my hard drive but it cannot. System
says a utility has locked it. Can anyone help ??

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Noel Paton - 28 Jun 2004 18:10 GMT

Try in Safe Mode - it's possibly your anti-virus program causing this error.

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> I tried defragging my hard drive but it cannot. System
> says a utility has locked it. Can anyone help ??

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 28 Jun 2004 18:29 GMT

>-----Original Message-----
>I tried defragging my hard drive but it cannot. System
>says a utility has locked it. Can anyone help ??
>.

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Peter - 28 Jun 2004 23:57 GMT

Try it in safe mode. Reboot while holding the CTRL key.

>-----Original Message-----
>I tried defragging my hard drive but it cannot. System
>says a utility has locked it. Can anyone help ??
>.

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