i never defragged my comp before :eek: so i attempted to yesterday but it always gets at 1% and then restarts!! what is wrong?

Because you never defragged before. :eek:

Seriously..........I had the same problem, before I understood the importance.
Windows couldn't do it. I finally had to download Diskeeper; and it fixed it fine.
Now, needless to say, I defrag on a regular basis.
Wait for someone else to reply before you go out and get another program though.
Maybe someone else has a better plan ;)

you may want to try to boot into safe mode and see if it will work that way. That can make defrag work..

As it most likely says, something may be writing to the disc, changing things so that it is forced to start over and over. You can try shutting down everything but explorer in task manager also.

all right i'll try what you guys said tonight
also how do i restart my comp is safe mode? :eek:
and where can i get that diskeeper thing?

Originally posted by creepcolony
all right i'll try what you guys said tonight
also how do i restart my comp is safe mode? :eek:
and where can i get that diskeeper thing? What operating system are you running?

Diskeeper is available as trialware Here (http://www.executivesoftware.com/downloads/menu.asp) ;)

98 second edition

Yea I had a problem where it simply couldn't defrag, that was before I knew anything about computers...Long story short, I formatted, and haven't had a problem since.

Originally posted by creepcolony
98 second edition Hold down the Ctrl key while restarting (Start >Shut Down > Restart);

Release the Ctrl key when you see the Desktop dialog box that indicates Windows 98 is running in safe mode.


Alternatively you can also tap F5 to get into safe mode if you're just turning on the computer.

But, as Relyc warns, you may end up needing to do a complete format.

And then again. . . . I can't say enough good things about Diskeeper.

And, again, you may want to wait for someone else's opinion. As sometimes that AnIdiot thing overtakes me and I didn't even see it coming :eek:

Did you try Chicken's suggestion??

nope not yet...i used diskeeper and it defragged my comp...but my hard drive went from 3 gig to 1 gig from that defrag!

Originally posted by creepcolony
nope not yet...i used diskeeper and it defragged my comp...but my hard drive went from 3 gig to 1 gig from that defrag! Are you back to normal yet??

Originally posted by Chicken
As it most likely says, something may be writing to the disc, changing things so that it is forced to start over and over. You can try shutting down everything but explorer in task manager also.

To add to that, I have a USB hub attached to my computer, and even after shutting everything off but systray and explorer, I was still having write problems. Pulling the plug on the hub did the trick, and now I can defrag at will. Might help someone out if they're having the same problem.

Greg Moore

i shut off all programs except systray and explorer and i unplugged my usb things and it still won't defrag! :bawling:

Cable or DSL ?

Unplug your computer from the modem. Any action by the disk and the program will restart.

crtl+alt+del and get rid of any running processes which could be reading / writing to the disk.

Also, if you haven't defragged at all, and had your hdd for quite some time... now may be the time to reformat - you will be amazed at how quick it is afterwards

Regards
Matt