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Defrag not working Win98

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by darknights_us

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I have a user who is trying to defrag his laptop. This is a Win98 laptop. Scandisk ran fine(thorough). The defrag will start and run through 12 to 15 percent then constantly restarts. I have turned ofr Norton and anything else that is running in thebackground. HELP

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by jeeper

You must still have a program that is accessing the hard drive. In win 98 you can shut off most anything that loads up when 98 starts up. Try clicking on start, then run, type in msconfig, and go to the startup. Then uncheck most everything. then reboot, and try defrag again. Be sure that you take note of what you uncheck so that you can recheck them when your done. You may also find out what is causing your problem that way. Hope this helps you out.

by darknights_us

Thanks
This solution of going to MSCONFIG and unchecking the programs that load in the startup fixed the defrag problem. Jeeper thanks

by duck

I have had this happen also.
Try booting to Safe Mode and then
run Defrag.

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