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Defrag/scanDisc..whats up?

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by spaaceyankee

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Defrag gets stuck at 21% everytime.Hard drive is only 8 months old and babyied.running windows 98.scanDisc gets to 98% then stops for 5 seconds,then goes back to 80% then sits for 4 seconds then completes.Is there a problem there. and on the defrag is it software or hardware????

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by gene pinson

One of two possibilities:
1> The FAT is corrupt or becoming so.
2> The Drive is starting to go.
What you can do to double check is to image it over to another drive and see how it reacts, if it reacts fine, reformat the old drive and image the data back and see if continues to have problems.

by pvp

Watch for other programs/processes running that periodically write to the disk. Stop them if at all possible, so only scandisk or defrag is running! I've noticed messages "disk updated, restarting" with various scan/defrag products. Jogging in place, anyone?

by clover252525

Make sure your screensaver is disabled. Then press CTRL/ALT/DEL and stop everything from running except Explorer and Rundll. Try now.

Clover

by >@ >@ gone fishing @< @<

Try runing scandisk from DOs. Try downloading some HDD diagnostics utilities. If you expereince errors or problems in the DOS scandisk I would say you have a hardware Error. Also run FDISK and check what your partitions are set too.

by cosloot

It is reccomended that you run Scandisk before running Defrag. I found out it is better to run through scandisk before you run defrag.

Try running thorough scandisk from inside windows and see if you can get all the way through it. If you can you should be able to defrag.

by cyberace

Prior to running scandisk, unload and disable any anti-virus program from memory. Anti-virus program will access and write to harddisk whenever it detects a change and this will cause scandisk to restart. As for defrag, you should run a full disk scan first with the following options:-
1. Uncheck Automatically fix errors
2. Click options and choose scan System and data areas. Make sure the 'Do not perform write-testing' and 'Do not repair bad sectors in hidden ..... ' are both uncheck.

AllThe Best

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