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CANNOT DEFRAG
Name: Rob Date: September 23, 2001 at 18:09:11 Pacific
Comment:
Hi All, I have tried and tried again t defrag the Me version to no avail. Everytime I do it keeps restaring and evetually comes up with the error that "Windows was writting to the disk and has been restarted 10 times as a result of it and it then asks me if I want to retry. This doesnt work either. I did Ctrl/Alt/Del and had only appropriate progy's running. Any suggestions???
Name: Brian Date: September 23, 2001 at 18:17:46 Pacific
Reply:
try running it in safemode press the ctrl key while booting.
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Response Number 2
Name: rnesbitt Date: September 23, 2001 at 18:46:08 Pacific
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I tired CTRL. This didn't work. it did not give me the option to boot in safemode. Windows ME sucks ass
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Response Number 3
Name: m Date: September 23, 2001 at 18:51:55 Pacific
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you can also try pressing the shift key, or pressing f8 at the starting windows message. then choose safemode from the list.
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Response Number 4
Name: faq safemode Date: September 23, 2001 at 18:57:48 Pacific
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1. How do I boot into Safe Mode?
a) Push the Start button on the PC.
b) When the machine gets to the second Black and White screen hold down the F8 key
c) When the Windows Startup Menu appears choose Option 3- Safe Mode. Hit Enter.
d) Machine will then boot into Safe Mode.
e) Please note that in Safe Mode your PC will operate in 16 colors only and in 640X480 resolution only. (Safe Mode is for Troubleshooting Only.
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Response Number 5
Name: rnesbitt Date: September 23, 2001 at 19:17:21 Pacific
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Thanks for the immediate help. I will try these
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Response Number 6
Name: ryan Date: September 23, 2001 at 21:42:17 Pacific
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You didn't happen to have a cd left in the cd-rom drive did you? Defrag used to give me the same message and I think that was the problem.
Ryan
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Response Number 7
Name: Renaissance Man Date: September 23, 2001 at 23:26:06 Pacific
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This is one of the most frequently asked questions on this forum. Do you have Norton AV running?
The search function on this site sucks, but you might try it anyway and look for past solutions.
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Response Number 8
Name: Lesley Date: September 24, 2001 at 03:58:33 Pacific
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Did you remember to turn off your Screensaver?
Lesley
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Response Number 9
Name: Trev Date: September 24, 2001 at 07:50:14 Pacific
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Turn off all possible background programs, especially PC Health and all forms of scheduled tasks. Here's how: Disable unnecessary programs in startup by going to Start, Run, type msconfig press enter, go to Startup tab, uncheck any unnecessary programs, especially PCHealth, Load power profile (usually there twice), Scheduling agent, anything that mentions scheduling. Look at two sites for more on this: http://www2.whidbey.net/djdenham/Uncheck.htm and http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
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Response Number 10
Name: Jan Kersten Date: September 27, 2001 at 10:28:14 Pacific
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Hi Rob,
I had the same problem, i downloaded the trial version Norton utility's 2001 and used speeddisk, it worked great. After that you should be able to defrag with the defrag from ME.
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