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Scandisk & Defrag keep restarting
Name: DroG Date: August 13, 2000 at 13:27:43 Pacific
Comment:
Using Win 95 OSR2 on a P3 450Mhz with 128Mb RAM and 12GbHD. When I try to run Scandisk or Defrag from Windows they keep "restarting due to disk write" even if I hold down shift while booting. Norton Speedisk eventually gets the job done but not without several restarts. Any suggestions as to what's occuring?
Name: DW Date: August 13, 2000 at 13:52:48 Pacific
Reply:
Try doing a Control/Alt/Del & End Task [one by one] on everything except Explore & Systray, then run Scan Disk, then Defrag Hope it helps, it worked for me
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Response Number 2
Name: Preston Date: August 13, 2000 at 14:37:08 Pacific
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You have a program making disk writes in the background which makes scandisk/defrag restart. DW provides excellent advise for turning off the software that is causing your problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: natalia Date: August 13, 2000 at 16:12:46 Pacific
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if you have the norton speed disk which is very Good for fragmentation,so why you have to use the defrag via windows ,and trust me I use to have the same problem,s when I use both Norton speed disk and defrag via win.and my problem,s gone when I decide to use the only NORTON speed disk for fragment the HDD blessing ...
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Response Number 4
Name: Kevin Date: August 14, 2000 at 14:38:43 Pacific
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You have something running in the background, go to run and type msconfig then click on start up and uncheck what you believe is running in the back ground, be very careful not to uncheck anything that has to do with windows 98
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Response Number 5
Name: DroG Date: August 15, 2000 at 11:38:32 Pacific
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Kevin, msconfig only works with win98, I'm running win95 OSR2. Natalia, point taken, but I'm told Windows and Norton complement each other when used in conjunction. Anyway, Norton restarts as well, but at least it eventually finishes the job. DW & Preston, tried the ctrl/Alt/Del option - didn't cure the problem. Weird, huh?
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Response Number 6
Name: Luis Verdejo Date: May 17, 2001 at 13:06:21 Pacific
Summary: When I go to run defrag, it keeps restarting and never gets past about 5%. I turned off the Screen Saver and most programs by the Ctrl Alt DEL key and closing them. What am I doing wrong so I can run ...
Summary: this is what you need to do. go start, go run, type msconfig, hit enter. click on startup and undo all the check marks. now click apply and ok. restart and now run scandisk and defrag. should run with...
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