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| melmark 2004-01-11, 9:24 pm |
| I have been cleaning up the unnecessary files and desktop of one of our
neighbour's computer to make more space and to speed the start up. After
running disk cleanup on the C drive ( Windows 98 second edition ) I ran the
defrag program when it stopped because of faulty file indexing. I ran
Scandisk and found 14 errors ( all temp download references ) which I
deleted to restore space ( 163.5 Kb ). When I ran defrag again it stopped
because of faulty file indexing but when I ran Scandisk again the dialogue
box reported that there were no problem segments. Do you know of any way of
diagnosing the problem with C drive so that the defrag can be run. ?
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| mark mandel 2004-01-11, 10:24 pm |
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"melmark" <melmark@starwon.com.au> wrote in message
news:4001ff0e@news.comindico.com.au...
> I have been cleaning up the unnecessary files and desktop of one of our
> neighbour's computer to make more space and to speed the start up. After
> running disk cleanup on the C drive ( Windows 98 second edition ) I ran
the
> defrag program when it stopped because of faulty file indexing. I ran
> Scandisk and found 14 errors ( all temp download references ) which I
> deleted to restore space ( 163.5 Kb ). When I ran defrag again it stopped
> because of faulty file indexing but when I ran Scandisk again the dialogue
> box reported that there were no problem segments. Do you know of any way
of
> diagnosing the problem with C drive so that the defrag can be run. ?
If there are now no faulty file segments as you say and it's simply a
question of getting the defrag to run OK, you could do it in Safe mode or
you could close out the background programs shown in the Task
Manager(Alt-Control-Delete)except for Systray and Internet Explorer and
disable the screen saver as well, then run the defrag.
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| Barry Watzman 2004-01-11, 10:24 pm |
| If you just deleted the files, but then did not empty the "trash can",
the files were still on the hard drive, just in a different folder.
Empty the "trash can" and that might fix it.
melmark wrote:
> I have been cleaning up the unnecessary files and desktop of one of our
> neighbour's computer to make more space and to speed the start up. After
> running disk cleanup on the C drive ( Windows 98 second edition ) I ran the
> defrag program when it stopped because of faulty file indexing. I ran
> Scandisk and found 14 errors ( all temp download references ) which I
> deleted to restore space ( 163.5 Kb ). When I ran defrag again it stopped
> because of faulty file indexing but when I ran Scandisk again the dialogue
> box reported that there were no problem segments. Do you know of any way of
> diagnosing the problem with C drive so that the defrag can be run. ?
>
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