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Defrag. Problem
Name: Joey Date: November 28, 2002 at 19:15:44 Pacific OS: WinMe CPU/Ram: Celeron/256
Comment:
When I defraged my drives yesterday i got an error that said that some program is writing on this drive, and then it told me to do a thorough scandisk. I did that and I went back to the defragment thing, and same message. Please tell me how i can fix this problem. Thank you
Name: wawadave Date: November 28, 2002 at 20:40:20 Pacific
Reply:
hello you might have pc health running in the back ground or ad-ware or trojin or virus. try running them from safe mode. or d/l a free program called enditall do the google to get it. you can get norton system works on ebay for under $20.00 usd. its a program called speed disk far superior to m.e defrag. and a free program called disk keeper lite. its allso got m.e defrag beet.
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Response Number 2
Name: Trev Date: November 29, 2002 at 06:23:10 Pacific
Reply:
If you set up your system like it says in the homepage link on this response you shouldn't get any more problems.
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