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re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2%
Wednesday, December 31, 2003 at 12:10 pm
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Posted by janus (4 messages posted)


Just tried that when in safe mode will not let me go further than 4% saying errors that must be corrected first and directing me to scandisk to repair errors..but scandisk is not functioning properly looks like it is but never finds or shows any errors ??? will try again thanks but still not able to defragment .


On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 10:55 am, Steverz wrote:
>Run your computer in Safe Mode (on boot press F8 or Ctrl to get to the Menu Options).
>At Menu Options select Safe Mode. In Safe Mode, place any screensaver to "none".
> Put your Antivirus program (if you have one) on "disable". Now do a disk defragmentation.
> After that, go ahead and do a "scandisk using the 'thorough' option". When you
>have finished, just shutdown and reboot as the system will come up inthe normal Windows
>mode.
>
>


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re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (Steverz: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 10:55 am)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (janus: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 10:19 am)
-re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (Steverz: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 10:55 am)
*re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (janus: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 12:25 pm)
*re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (janus: Wed, Dec 31, 2003, 12:10 pm)
-re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (Helen~: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 11:12 am)
-re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (Steverz: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 11:28 am)
*''Now do a disk defragmentation. After that, go ahead and do a ''scandisk using the 'thorough' option''. (n/t) (JmC: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 12:15 pm)
*re: disk fragmentor when running stops at 2% (JS: Tue, Dec 30, 2003, 5:48 pm)
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