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my defragmenter is broken
Analyze says I should defrag so I do and it gets to 13% compacting and then
says defrag complete. I check analyze and it still says i should defrag. I've done this numerous times with no better results. How can i fix disk defragmenter? TIA |
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my defragmenter is broken
"Madx" wrote in message
... Analyze says I should defrag so I do and it gets to 13% compacting and then says defrag complete. I check analyze and it still says i should defrag. I've done this numerous times with no better results. How can i fix disk defragmenter? TIA What percent free space do you have on your hard drive? -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM I won't answer email. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Try running disk cleanup first.
"Madx" wrote in message ... Analyze says I should defrag so I do and it gets to 13% compacting and then says defrag complete. I check analyze and it still says i should defrag. I've done this numerous times with no better results. How can i fix disk defragmenter? TIA |
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my defragmenter is broken
"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message ... "Madx" wrote in message ... Analyze says I should defrag so I do and it gets to 13% compacting and then says defrag complete. I check analyze and it still says i should defrag. I've done this numerous times with no better results. How can i fix disk defragmenter? TIA What percent free space do you have on your hard drive? -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM I won't answer email. 6 gb used 8gb free and I have used disk cleanup first |
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my defragmenter is broken
Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control
Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madx wrote: "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM" wrote in message ... "Madx" wrote in message ... Analyze says I should defrag so I do and it gets to 13% compacting and then says defrag complete. I check analyze and it still says i should defrag. I've done this numerous times with no better results. How can i fix disk defragmenter? TIA What percent free space do you have on your hard drive? -- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM I won't answer email. 6 gb used 8gb free and I have used disk cleanup first |
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my defragmenter is broken
"Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Scandisk is a utility for checking drives formatted as FAT32 and was
provided by Microsoft for use with Windows 98 / Windows ME. It is not provided for use with Windows XP. I am well aware that it's Disk Defragmenter that doesn't work properly. One reason it sometimes doesn't work properly is that there can be problems with the disk. Running chkdsk will reveal whether there are problems. Another problem could be that Disk Defragmenter is being interupted. You might try running Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madx wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This
will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a splinter
in your finger. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
This is a diagnostic technique. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it.
Would you care to post your concerns? "Gerry" wrote in message ... Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a splinter in your finger. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Hardly diagnostic when you say "Delete all items in startup." Far
simpler to run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode to achieve the same objective and not be so destructive. In any event there are far better ways to disable items in Start if you need to. ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: This is a diagnostic technique. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Would you care to post your concerns? "Gerry" wrote in message ... Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a splinter in your finger. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Good grief how is it in any way destructive by simply blocking the loading
of programs? Your diagnostic procedures obviously vary from mine but to say mine are destructive leaves me with the impression you don't know much about XP. "Gerry" wrote in message ... Hardly diagnostic when you say "Delete all items in startup." Far simpler to run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode to achieve the same objective and not be so destructive. In any event there are far better ways to disable items in Start if you need to. ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: This is a diagnostic technique. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Would you care to post your concerns? "Gerry" wrote in message ... Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a splinter in your finger. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
I know sufficient to know you Disable and not DELETE if you are using
msconfig as a diagnostic tool! ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Good grief how is it in any way destructive by simply blocking the loading of programs? Your diagnostic procedures obviously vary from mine but to say mine are destructive leaves me with the impression you don't know much about XP. "Gerry" wrote in message ... Hardly diagnostic when you say "Delete all items in startup." Far simpler to run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode to achieve the same objective and not be so destructive. In any event there are far better ways to disable items in Start if you need to. ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: This is a diagnostic technique. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Would you care to post your concerns? "Gerry" wrote in message ... Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a splinter in your finger. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
Delete the X's. You're reading far to much into the post.
"Gerry" wrote in message ... I know sufficient to know you Disable and not DELETE if you are using msconfig as a diagnostic tool! ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Good grief how is it in any way destructive by simply blocking the loading of programs? Your diagnostic procedures obviously vary from mine but to say mine are destructive leaves me with the impression you don't know much about XP. "Gerry" wrote in message ... Hardly diagnostic when you say "Delete all items in startup." Far simpler to run Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode to achieve the same objective and not be so destructive. In any event there are far better ways to disable items in Start if you need to. ~~~~ Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: This is a diagnostic technique. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Would you care to post your concerns? "Gerry" wrote in message ... Not good advice. Rather like chopping off your hand to remove a splinter in your finger. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unknown wrote: Try using msconfig. Delete all items in startup. Reboot and run defrag. This will have the effect of not loading any program which can interrupt defrag. While defrag is running or before starting you may want to use task manager to see what may be happening. "Madx" wrote in message ... "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. |
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my defragmenter is broken
"Gerry" wrote in message ... Scandisk is a utility for checking drives formatted as FAT32 and was provided by Microsoft for use with Windows 98 / Windows ME. It is not provided for use with Windows XP. I am well aware that it's Disk Defragmenter that doesn't work properly. One reason it sometimes doesn't work properly is that there can be problems with the disk. Running chkdsk will reveal whether there are problems. Another problem could be that Disk Defragmenter is being interupted. You might try running Disk Defragmenter in Safe Mode. -- Hope this helps. Gerry ~~~~ FCA Stourport, England Enquire, plan and execute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Madx wrote: "Gerry" wrote in message ... Is your hard disk formatted as FAT32 or NTFS. Select Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management to find out. If NTFS select, Start, Run, type "cmd" without quotes and hit Enter, type "Chkdsk /f /r" without quotes and hit Enter. Answer Y to the question which appears and exit.. You must restart the system before the disk scan begins. I have run scan disk on restart already. It's disk defragmenter that doesn't work. See first post. Your right of course it's not called scan disk but error checking which is what I had done. |
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