DEFRAGMENTATION

[0E_Exception]

It seems that each time I defrag my hard drive, I may as well just re-install. After I run defrag, it finishes successfully, then not long after I reboot, it starts with all sorts of errors, as though when it was defraging it lost data or misplaced it. Anyone else have these problems?


800 AMD T-bird, 256PC133,
40 Western Digital 7200 RPM/ATA100
Asus A7V, ATI A.I.W.128Pro

[Daemon]

try a full scan disk, maybe you have bad sectors. I have found that Western Digital HD have alot of problems.

[FreeFreak]

I agree with daemon. If you have bad sectors and defrag, then the computer dosen't know the sectors are bad. I only knows if you scandisk and it finds them.

[Sowulo]

Just a real good habit to get in to....Always run scandisk before you defrag. Run scandisk thorough if you are getting file errors to make sure you don't have bad clusters that aren't marked.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I've found Norton Utilities much more comprehensive for diagnosing and fixing disk problems and defragmenting hard drives. However, that said, stay completely away from Norton System Works. That suite of programs is a resource hog that'll bring your computer to its knees...

[rrockey]

Make sure you have no TSR's loaded when starting your defrag.

Nothing should be running except systray, explorer, and defrag(duh).

And I agree, stay away from Norton System Works.

[0E_Exception]

It seems to have worked this time, count on windoze to work when you least expect it to I suppose. Thanks for the help everyone.

[Ya_know]

[quote]Originally posted by apd183:
<strong>I agree with daemon. If you have bad sectors and defrag, then the computer dosen't know the sectors are bad. I only knows if you scandisk and it finds them.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I hate to be the one to disagree, but, Defrag will typically terminate and insist that a scandisk be performed first when it encounters errors like unmarked bad sectors.