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cakecake   06-08-2002 at 10:31:59 AM

I was defragging my brother's computer the other day when it got stuck on 70%. I ran scandisk again and disabled his virus scanners but it still would just work for about 2 minutes then say "drive contents changed". How do I get it to defragment the whole drive?

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poorboy   06-08-2002 at 10:50:32 AM
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You need to make sure nothing else is running. Either kill processes in the task manager, or boot in safe mode.

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jc14all   06-08-2002 at 02:13:17 PM
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Do a "Ctrl-Alt-Del" to get to Task manager then End Task on everything EXCEPT <b>Explorer</b> & <b>Sys Tray</b>. Now you shouldn't have any problem running scan disk or defrag

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mfud   06-09-2002 at 12:49:42 AM
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now what is the next rook?

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mfud   06-09-2002 at 12:51:46 AM
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but sometimes "Ctrl-Alt-Del" is screwed. what can we do in that case?

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mfud   06-09-2002 at 12:54:13 AM
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you cant. the only remedy is to reformat your hard disk.

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jc14all   06-09-2002 at 01:12:17 AM
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It is obvious that a task is running in the background interferring with the scan disk/defrag operation. This is a simply problem, I don't know what you mean by:

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but sometimes "Ctrl-Alt-Del" is screwed. what can we do in that case?


If "Ctrl-Alt-Del" doesn't correct this problem a format surely will...huh? Please explain what you are trying to say?

Formatting for the sake of formatting is what I call black-box troubleshooting. If it doesn't turn-on don't bother trying to figure it out, just buy a new one.

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btvillarin   06-10-2002 at 09:01:57 AM
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It took me awhile, but I found it:

<A HREF="http://content.techweb.com/winmag/fixes/scandisk.htm" target="_new">Speed Up ScanDisk</A>
by Dave Methvin, former WinMag.com writer

Bryan

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OldBear   06-10-2002 at 09:06:08 AM
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You do amaze me.
Nice going.

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btvillarin   06-10-2002 at 09:25:29 AM
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Thanks!

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jc14all   06-10-2002 at 01:09:30 PM
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I also commend you my friend. When you have a headache you don't call a surgeon, but you my friend brought what the PC doctor orders. WTG! Also, a nice bookmark. Thanks.

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unoc   06-10-2002 at 02:13:11 PM
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There is a very nice benchmark software, Ziff Davis Media Win Bench (WWW.ZDNET.COM) . This benchmark suite includes a utility called startup manager. This utility allows you to select what application has to start at the boot. You may avoid that all undesired software are initialized at the start up changing the HDD content during the defragmentation.

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btvillarin   06-10-2002 at 08:15:41 PM
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It's sure is nice to be appreciated. :smile: I think I'm gonna cry...

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