Defrag

Defraging varies from one computer to another,so the things to check for
1)Close all programs running in the background specifically the anti-virus and screen savers
Insert a startup disk,boot to dos nad try running defrag from the dos prompt

Check the power manage settings and disable while performing defrag,could be causing the system to halt

Last but not least this could be the warnong to a hard drive going bad,run scan disk to check the drive for errors,then run defrag after scanniing the drive

You donn't mentioned the drive capacity and driver free space??????

In optimizing your hard drive you should make sure that the drive dont have any error, and to check this you will run the scandisk, then proceed to defragging )if scandisk don't give you an error.)

Other thing is the free space,,,,,the question is there enought space to work with swap file?
If your hard drive is less than 500MB free space, i think that's the problem.....NO SPACE TO SWAP FILE!!!!

Pinoy_Teknik

Win98 has some problems with defrag.
Microsoft has released a patch for win98 users
which is designed to improve the efficiency of the algorithm
check microsoft site

Something in your computer is running at a given time. I found Zone Alarm firewall was updating a log.txt file set every 3 minutes..Urgh..
Sometimes it would not make it through scan disk routine, because the file was changed, it would restart.
I closed all programs running in background using windows help, selective start up, and rebooted.
It is the only way I can defrag..Cheers

If you cannot defrag your drive it means that you have got alot of files which are corrupted or the cluster file are not in the right position, you still can use your pc but the onlyest solution maybe to format your drive...Again your files may be above the normal size

Try logging into Windows under Safe Mode... the defrag process could take really long when you have a lot of programs running in the background in Normal mode.

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