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by salahkasem

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Dear sir,
when i defrage the computer ,firstly the operating systeme,win 98 ,the prombte above the progress bar indicate that "the content of the drive change,restarting",then "reading drive information" several times,so the defrage process
take many time ,and repeated many times,what the reason for that and what the solution.
thank you.

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by thechas

You need to shut down ALL running programs.

The simplest way to do this, is to boot into Safe Mode.

Then, right click on any Icons in the system tray (right hand side of the taskbar) and select exit or close.

Temporarily turn off your screen saver.

Before running Defrag, run scandisk to check the drive for errors.

Defrag should now run with out stopping for disk activity.

If it still stops, press Alt-Ctrl-Del keys together to bring up the Task Manager.
Shut down ALL tasks except Explorer, and run defrag again.

Chas

by brianaaa12

In addition you can use a slick little utility called EndItAll. And it does just that. Ends all programs, except Explorer and Systray.

Brian

by jfhgadget

Your drive may also be close to full, and there isnt enough free space to re-write the information. You didnt specify how much information you have on your drive, but if you're close to full, you can have this problem. I know this from personal experience.

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