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Ok, any help here would be appreciated on this subject, I'm stumped. My hardrive is a 10gig, my RAM is 64, and I don't think I've run DDefrag in the year that I've had this thing. So I run it last night at 1AM and let it go until 10AM, and it's only 28% done? And it's been stuck at 28 for a while, it just keeps going back and ''reading drive info''. I've shut down all programs and everything, disabled virus programs like I've read in FAQs. I ran Scandisk before hand. How long is this supposed to take? I was just too impatient, I'm not waiting 48 hours for this to do its thing, plus it was stuck at 28 for a LOOOONG time... Anything else I should do that I'm forgetting? |
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It seems to be stuck, have you tried tapping the hard drive gently to try and get the drive heads moving again? |
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What version of Windows do you have? It is sometimes a good idea to run Defrag in Safemode to disable all programmes running in the background. If ya cant do that, use Alt+Ctrl+Del to end Task on all programmes EXCEPT Explorer and Systray (disbling them will crash the syste,!) If still no joy....Through scandisk first...may be a corrupt file! |
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Pff.. it takes a couple of hours to do mine, but we do it at least once a month, it may be the case that you have some problems that the de-frag can't fix, can you run a scan disk? |
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Get a MAC |
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Got Windows 98... Pirotess, I ran Scandisk first, no problems turned up... I ran it in Standard, maybe I should run it in Thorough? And I used End-it-All to close all programs except Explorer and Systray, so that's not a problem... Flim Flam, yeah, I read about the Safe Mode thing, I forgot... I'll try that tonight, thanks. This site never fails to get me out of life's little jams. :-D |
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Only a full scan disk will fix and major problems, it'll take about 3 hours though :/ Usua;;y a defrag will tell you to run a scan disk, but when I did it once it just kept restarting till I did a scan disk and it found errors. |
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Gotta be said though, the most important thing to remember before you run de-frag is to disable your screensaver.....ya don't wanna get to 85% only for the screensaver to pop-up, change the drive history and restart the process ALL OVER AGAIN!!! |
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this worked for me: start - run - msconfig - startup procedure: selective -> uncheck all items. Windows will boot up with minimum requirements (it's different from safe mode i think) and scandisk and defrag should run just fine but it might still take a while. Make sure you check every item again when you're finished! |
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Usually works fine but if he hasn't defragg'd in over 12 months, his system will be a clutter with data scattered everywhere and disabling anything from msconfig may cause more probs! |
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really shoudht take THAT long opheks!! mine is done in about 3-4 hours. by the way, once it starts, dont load / unload any programs, just leave it alone, or it starts again. good luck |
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my disk was a complete mess too but you cannot harm your computer in any way by disabling things in msconfig. It's probably the only way.. |
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Yeah.....you're probably right matey! Let him fiddle anyways! Maybe we can all start a thread here for PC/mac support? |
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