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by bigguyjoe47

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starts to defrag and then stopsand restarts thats as far as it gets keeps starting and stopping defragging harddrives never finishes defrag

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by ann777

Boot to Safe Mode (no network) and then run a scandisk and defrag. The reason defrags keep restarting are because of network polling, anti-virus polling, e-mail arriving, screen savers kicking-in, etc. Anything that changes the contents of your hdd, will cause a defrag to see the contents change and will start it over.

by still_learning

Anna is correct, however you may find that Defrag will still start and stop a number of times. This will depend upon the amount RAM available to perform the function. Hope this helps

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