disc defrag

Keith DeLong · Post by **Keith DeLong** » 12 Jan 2004 3:21 am

I used the maintenance wizard on my PC last night and it went as far as checking the disc for errors, but got hung up on the disc defragment, when I got up this morning there was 0 progress in defragging.
It seems like something was holding up the process. I did close some things on the taskbar, i.e. Quicktime and another photo program, left my McAfee antivirus and firewall on. Any thoughts on this, should I go through Control Alt Delete and end task on everything but Explorer and Systray?

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 12 Jan 2004 3:35 am

try defrag in the windows safe mode...

jolynyk · Post by **jolynyk** » 12 Jan 2004 3:51 am

Mine seems to work if I shut down the Anti Virus & Firewall, but if I leave them running, the defragmenting just keeps restarting.......... John

Keith DeLong · Post by **Keith DeLong** » 12 Jan 2004 6:50 am

Thanks for the reply--I'll try disabling the firewall and antivirus first, then Plan B--safe mode. I defragged it the other day, but as you say it kept on restarting and only was able to defrag 90%.
Computers are like tube amps, you love them when they're working right and hate them when they're not :.
Thanks again for the help.

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 12 Jan 2004 12:13 pm

Maybe you need to do a disk scan first before the defrag. If you have some bad segments on your hard drive that can hang up defrag. Also, if you have a virus on your computer, it can cause problems with defrag.
Erv

Keith DeLong · Post by **Keith DeLong** » 12 Jan 2004 1:24 pm

Erv, I did a virus scan and that came up clean, also a disc scan and got rid of a lot of files. I did manage a defrag by disabling the antivirus and the firewall, although it took quite a while. It still restartsquite often, and says something has changed on the disc. i was wondering if it's the screen saver coming on that's slowing it down. I think next time I do it I'll try from safe mode.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 12 Jan 2004 2:00 pm

You should disable your screen saver before defragmenting. Sometimes it's just easier to start in safe mode than it is to stop everything that's running.

Keith DeLong · Post by **Keith DeLong** » 13 Jan 2004 6:16 pm

That could have been the problem, as it would go along for about 10 minutes then restart. I'll try safe mode next time.
Thanks, everybody

Lloyd Karenke · Post by **Lloyd Karenke** » 18 Jan 2004 1:36 pm

Tony's suggestion of defraging in safe mode works great for me......
Lloyd