Defragmenter

[ADS_Tech]

Ive been using Speed Disk in Systemworks 2002 to defrag my drives. Until I discovered that Norton have announced its crap at it under XP. <a href="http://service4.symantec.com/SUPPORT/nunt.nsf/ca9f46bcffa4bc3285256aa30052353c/b0e88112e57169eb88256b1a0056bf63" target="_blank">Speed Disk</a>
Ive now tried the standard defragger, but it keeps hanging. After a reboot it will get a bit further, then hang. It will do this three or four times before completion. I have disabled all background progs etc.
Any clues???
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[ADS_Tech]

I have to add that this is the first time ive seen XP hang at all, and ive had 5 machines running it 24/7 for three months now.

[DANIMAL]

I know you said you did but did you disable your Antivirus,Screen saver, firewall and disconect from the net.

[Quiet Thunder]

I think I've herd somewhere that some 3rd party defraggers will actually mess up the defrag that comes with the OS. Maybe a system file checker would work? Also, do you run scandisk before you defrag? And have you run a full thourough scandisk lately? Could be a harddrive going bad on you.

[Matridom]

For defragmenting, you may want to try Diskeeper from Executive Software. They are the ones who designed Disk Defragmenter for win2k/XP under contract with M$. Diskeeper is about 2-3 times faster for defraging, it can do multiple hard disks at the same time and defrag across a network (host has to have client software installed).

I've used it on all my NT/NTFS installation since the days of winNT4.0 and have never had a problem with it.

[SubZero]

To answer you question: run a full chkdsk with surface scan, then try to defrag using the XP defrag utility.

[Hackmaster]

Delete everything in your C:\Windows\Prefetch directory then try Defrag. The prefetch files will be created as you use your applications.