Jim
December 11th 03, 09:41 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>I'm running Windows XP, and recently I've run into
>problems trying to defragment my hard drive. When I run
>Disk Defragmenter, it gives me this
>message: "Defragmentation of (C:) has been aborted due to
>inconsistencies that were detected in the file system.
>Please run CHKDSK or SCANDISK on (C:)to repair these
>inconsistencies, then run Disk Defragmenter again."
>
>I've run the Check Disk utility, but it still gives me
>the same message. Any ideas on what is causing this
>and/or how I can fix it?
>.
>Run a diagnostic test on your hard drive. Install a
system utility to do this, such as System Mechanic, or V-
COMs FixIt Utilities, or Norton's Utilities. Here are some
sites; http://www.iolo.com/sm/ or check this site;
http://www.v-com.com/product/fi_ind.html or
http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Also here is a better
defragmenter;
http://consumer.execsoft.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?RId=1
>I'm running Windows XP, and recently I've run into
>problems trying to defragment my hard drive. When I run
>Disk Defragmenter, it gives me this
>message: "Defragmentation of (C:) has been aborted due to
>inconsistencies that were detected in the file system.
>Please run CHKDSK or SCANDISK on (C:)to repair these
>inconsistencies, then run Disk Defragmenter again."
>
>I've run the Check Disk utility, but it still gives me
>the same message. Any ideas on what is causing this
>and/or how I can fix it?
>.
>Run a diagnostic test on your hard drive. Install a
system utility to do this, such as System Mechanic, or V-
COMs FixIt Utilities, or Norton's Utilities. Here are some
sites; http://www.iolo.com/sm/ or check this site;
http://www.v-com.com/product/fi_ind.html or
http://www.utilitygeek.com/ Also here is a better
defragmenter;
http://consumer.execsoft.com/diskeeper/diskeeper.asp?RId=1