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by nena.waight-sharma

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Help! I converted my IDE hard drive to FAT32. at the end of the conversion the defragmenter could not defragment the hard drive. A message about detecting a problem and advising the running of SCAN DISK appeared. After running SCAN DISK (which found no errors on the hard drive), defragmenter again could not defragment and kept telling me to run SCAN DISK. How do I solve this? Thanks.

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by ashuras

This is just a suggestion.
I always use scandisk DOS version or chkdsk/f from DOS, instead using windows version.

by nena.waight-sharma

I inadvertently solved the problem. I deleted Conversion (since I had already converted the hard disk) and re-ran defragmenter and Voila! it worked. Thanks.

by ashuras

This is just a suggestion.
I always use scandisk DOS version or chkdsk/f from DOS, instead of using windows version.

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