defrag

**noterom.u.k.** · April 4th, 2005, 09:34 AM

hi,win98s.e. i recently reinstalled win98s.e. but today when i tried to use
disc defragmenter it only gets to about 20% then freezes and i have to reboot,can anyone help please,?
noterom.u.k.

**shamus** · April 4th, 2005, 09:52 AM

try running scandisk, then run defrag again. Also Win ME had a faster version of defrag,you can download it here: http://members.cox.net/scotterpops/e...cements9c.html

**hudsonsmith** · April 4th, 2005, 12:30 PM

Try running in safe mode.

**noterom.u.k.** · May 4th, 2005, 09:15 AM

sorry guys, forgot to post back results,and to say thank you,
closed screen saver,closed running progs,except explorer,systray,
ran scan disk,then defrag,ran like a dream.thanks again.
noterom.u.k.

**bind** · May 12th, 2005, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by noterom.u.k.

sorry guys, forgot to post back results,and to say thank you,
closed screen saver,closed running progs,except explorer,systray,
ran scan disk,then defrag,ran like a dream.thanks again.
noterom.u.k.

I'm glad to hear that you got defrag to run. You know that it's best to delete temp files and do a disk cleanup before a defrag.

**HeddaLora** · May 13th, 2005, 04:50 PM

It's just hanging up when it hits open apps (which you discovered). I hated having to close apps or boot into safemode (what a pain, and I hate having my desktop rearranged!), so I got Diskeeper, which doesn't have this problem. They have a free trialware. http://www.executive.com (I tried it and ended up buying it.)