[RESOLVED] Disk Defrag

thicks · April 17th, 2001, 10:16 AM

Does anyone know why disk defrag would lockup Win 98 after you select the drive. I already deleted the applog directory and ran disk cleanup.

Please help

DaOnly123Kid · April 17th, 2001, 10:20 AM

try running scandisk

**joelen** · April 17th, 2001, 10:46 AM

if that doesn't work, try going into safe mode, run scandisk and defrag there....

**n8dawg** · April 17th, 2001, 10:53 AM

disable your sceen saver, and any program running in the back ground safe mode is a good idea. if this all fails ghost info to another drive and see if you can do a defrag there if that works than i would say you have a bad drive

**Sorry_I_Win** · April 17th, 2001, 03:10 PM

i agree with n8dawg. that is most likely the prob.

**Kenteth420** · April 17th, 2001, 11:46 PM

Have you run a virus scan? I ran into a machine last week that had a virus that caused this. Do a search for winit.exe or winnit.exe something like that anyway. If defrag locks up instantly this may be your problem.

**CreepingDeath** · April 18th, 2001, 09:01 AM

if ya have some extra cash go and get norton utilities 2000/2001 just for the speed disk

in my experience it's faster

**ShAzAm** · April 18th, 2001, 05:28 PM

No doubt, NU 2001 should be in every techs' possession!

**Joker1** · April 19th, 2001, 07:15 AM

Originally posted by CreepingDeath:
if ya have some extra cash go and get norton utilities 2000/2001 just for the speed disk

in my experience it's faster

Although norton does have quite a bit of bloatware not to mention the ability to show you windows problems that never came up before, the speed disk is truly useful, i would never go back to the win98 defrag util.

**jayhawk88** · April 19th, 2001, 12:33 PM

One thing I have seen cause this is McAfee Virus Scan. I forget which version off hand, but it's a know issue with McAfee, they should have info on it. If that particular version of McAfee is installed, Defrag and Scandisk will refuse to run.

**Cave_Dweller** · April 20th, 2001, 04:27 AM

I agree with Jayhawk88, we see this Mcafee 4.5 all the time. You can either right click on the Mcafee shield on the task bar then select exit or just use "Safe Mode".