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by hhhranch

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I have a PII, 350 MHz PC, 96MB RAM that stalls on 5% when defragging. I have made sure no other programs running in background, disabled antivirus and even tried while in safe mode but got the same result. I did manage to get C: drive partition defragged, but D: drive partition still hangs at 5%. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any tips.

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by dmiles

There could be a number of causes
Programs listed under startup may be trying to accsee the drive
Click Start->Run,type MSCONFIG,on the General tab click on selective startup and deselect all boxes,now run Disk Cleanup from the Accessories menu,now run defrag,if this cycle completes,go back to Msconfig and enable normal startup.

Another option would try running defrag from dos mode

by timthetoolman

Hi,

Are you certain that its hanging? The percentage count is anything but constant when increasing and often seems to hang at one spot for a while.

Even on my Athlon 1.4 Ghz machine with a 50% utilised 40Gb 7200rpm drive (using XP), a defrag can take an hour or more!

Download a CPU monitor and verify that it has actually hung - it may be flat out working... this will especially be true if your disk is fairly full!

Cheers,
Tim.

by allan

Try running Scandisk on the drive first and when you start Defrag use the settings to stop the scandisk from running. At 5% it is probably still running scandisk & defrag won't even have started. On my system files only start to be moved about when the meter reaches 10 or 11%.

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