[TheForge] OT another ignert 'puter question

Steve Smith sos at alum.mit.edu
Mon Jan 10 20:00:55 EST 2005


We used to have this happen when trying to run defrag with other 
applications running in the background. They write a bit to disk, defrag 
has to start over refiguring how to stack the data.

So make sure that everything in your tray is disabled or exited. Then 
defrag should run much better.

Steve

Stephen McGehee wrote:

>     2. Disk Defragmenter, when I try to run this feature it never goes
> beyond a flickering 1%, will sit there for an hour doing churning noises
> in my cpu.  If I go into settings and turn off "check disk for errors"
> and run Defrag. by itself, it goes to 8%, displays "drive's contents
> changed, restarting" and goes up to 8%, et cetra...
> 
> Thanks for any input you might have about these problems.
> McGehee



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