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re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc
Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 1:49 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted)


|I had recently deleted a lot of photos
|[Defrag] normally only takes about 40 minutes to complete.
| Sue Smith
|
Wy covered this nicely.


|The last time I defragged my hard disc it took 36 hours.   
|It kept telling me it was 98 percent complete then went back to the beginning

"Why Scandisk/Defrag starts over"
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1123187486

Note the part that says **Anything that tries to write to the disk**
as well as the part that says **Anti-virus, screen saver, and firewall**.

The most important part is **Safe Mode**.




Written in response to:
Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 12:27 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 at 3:05 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wed, May 31, 2006, 12:27 pm)
-re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Wy: Wed, May 31, 2006, 1:02 pm)
*re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wed, May 31, 2006, 2:55 pm)
-re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (gewg_: Wed, May 31, 2006, 1:49 pm)
-re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Wed, May 31, 2006, 3:05 pm)
*re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (C K: Wed, May 31, 2006, 3:30 pm)
-re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc -- ATTRIB on CD-R (gewg_: Wed, May 31, 2006, 4:07 pm)
*re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc -- ATTRIB on CD-R (Sue Smith: Thu, Jun 1, 2006, 12:55 am)
-re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (mike: Wed, May 31, 2006, 9:17 pm)
*re: Problems defragmenting the hard disc (Sue Smith: Thu, Jun 1, 2006, 12:47 am)
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