Disk Defragmenter

patorey · External Since: Feb 02, 2007 Posts: 4

(I can't believe that "disk defragmenter" didn't bring up other posts!) I'm
simply not able to defrag my drive. It gets to 1% and quits. Any ideas?
I'm trying to solve other behavior problems: freezing up, various error
messages, etc. I guess I'm going to have to reinstall ME, but I'm concerned
about how long it'll take to download several years worth of Windows UPDATES!

patorey · External Since: Feb 02, 2007 Posts: 4

Add'l. info: Should also mention that I recall need to use scandisk before
defrag. I try, but when it begins checking file allocation tables, etc.
scandisk gives up on me. Turning off VirusScan and even Firewall doesn't
keep scandisk from quitting.

"patorey" wrote:

> (I can't believe that "disk defragmenter" didn't bring up other posts!) I'm
> simply not able to defrag my drive. It gets to 1% and quits. Any ideas?
> I'm trying to solve other behavior problems: freezing up, various error
> messages, etc. I guess I'm going to have to reinstall ME, but I'm concerned
> about how long it'll take to download several years worth of Windows UPDATES!

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

I don't honestly think you tried very hard when searching as "defrag"
should have brought up lots of hits since there have been hundreds of
posts on this topic over the 6½ years that has passed since the release of
Win Me. I also think the very last thing that you should be
contemplating, especially for this particular problem, is to reinstall Win
Me.

My first suggestion would be to boot to Safe Mode and then run defrag from
there with no other application running. If you still encounter problems,
whilst in Safe Mode, disable any background applications you have running
such as your antivirus application and firewall and then try running
defrag again.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby.RemoveThis@gmail.com

patorey <patorey.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> (I can't believe that "disk defragmenter" didn't bring up other
> posts!) I'm simply not able to defrag my drive. It gets to 1% and
> quits. Any ideas? I'm trying to solve other behavior problems:
> freezing up, various error messages, etc. I guess I'm going to have
> to reinstall ME, but I'm concerned about how long it'll take to
> download several years worth of Windows UPDATES!

patorey · External Since: Feb 02, 2007 Posts: 4

Mike, I just tried entering defrag again and the response is "Your query for
"defrag" did not return results." Got same for "defragmenter." Try it.
(Thanks for suggestion. I'll try it in Safe Mode.)

"Mike M" wrote:

> I don't honestly think you tried very hard when searching as "defrag"
> should have brought up lots of hits since there have been hundreds of
> posts on this topic over the 6Â½ years that has passed since the release of
> Win Me. I also think the very last thing that you should be
> contemplating, especially for this particular problem, is to reinstall Win
> Me.
>
> My first suggestion would be to boot to Safe Mode and then run defrag from
> there with no other application running. If you still encounter problems,
> whilst in Safe Mode, disable any background applications you have running
> such as your antivirus application and firewall and then try running
> defrag again.
> --
> Mike Maltby
> mike.maltby.DeleteThis@gmail.com
>
>
> patorey <patorey.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > (I can't believe that "disk defragmenter" didn't bring up other
> > posts!) I'm simply not able to defrag my drive. It gets to 1% and
> > quits. Any ideas? I'm trying to solve other behavior problems:
> > freezing up, various error messages, etc. I guess I'm going to have
> > to reinstall ME, but I'm concerned about how long it'll take to
> > download several years worth of Windows UPDATES!
>
>

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

OK. So what were you searching? Win Me's Help & Support after which you
then posted to a newsgroup but didn't think to search the newsgroup for
similar postings?
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby.TakeThisOut@gmail.com

patorey <patorey.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Mike, I just tried entering defrag again and the response is "Your
> query for "defrag" did not return results." Got same for
> "defragmenter." Try it. (Thanks for suggestion. I'll try it in Safe
> Mode.)

patorey · External Since: Feb 02, 2007 Posts: 4

"Mike M" wrote:

> OK. So what were you searching? Win Me's Help & Support after which you
> then posted to a newsgroup but didn't think to search the newsgroup for
> similar postings?
> --
> Mike Maltby
> mike.maltby RemoveThis @gmail.com
>
>
> patorey <patorey RemoveThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Mike, I just tried entering defrag again and the response is "Your
> > query for "defrag" did not return results." Got same for
> > "defragmenter." Try it. (Thanks for suggestion. I'll try it in Safe
> > Mode.)
>
>

Mike M1 · External Since: Jun 26, 2004 Posts: 4241

PS A quick check shows around 4,500 threads for which the subject line
contains the string "defrag" have been posted to the various Microsoft
Windows Millennium newsgroups in the last 6½ years with the number of
distinct posts to these threads being well over 15,000. 2,310 of those
threads were posted to this systemtools newsgroup.

However since Win Me went out of support in mid 2006 there have been few
posts on any subject to any of the Win Me newsgroups and probably only a
dozen new threads with defrag in the subject in the last year so perhaps
it is not surprising that you didn't find any posts when you checked.
--
Mike Maltby
mike.maltby DeleteThis @gmail.com

Mike M <No_Spam DeleteThis @Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:

> OK. So what were you searching? Win Me's Help & Support after which
> you then posted to a newsgroup but didn't think to search the
> newsgroup for similar postings?