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scandisc and defragmentation
Hi
just recently i've found that my scandisc and defrag: processes wont come to a conclusion!!
they just go on for hours and hours!!
sometimes a window will come up on scandsc: saying
another programme is preventing it from completing in normal time!....but I'm not aware of running
anything else.......any advice????
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ok here is the correct answer to this question, or rather the best one... restart your computer, keep pressing F8 after the BIOS screen dissapears, you should then see the windows start option screen... go to safe mode... and hit enter. let it load in safe mode, now that it is in safe mode, nothing else but essential windows drivers and applications that run windows can run, safe mode blocks off anything else so you can diagnose your computer to see which program or driver is the faulty one in the event that the computer was broken or haveing problems, but they let you get into it anyway even if its not, so you can do stuff like that... run scan disk then and disk defrag... make sure your have at least 15% free space too or you might see that, becuause it has to have space to rearrange stuff. it is normal for the defragger to run for hours and hours and hours and hours... depending on how many files are on your drive, and how long it was since your last defragment, ide go into another chapter on how "exacly" defragging works but its irrelevent to the subject, so lets just say that it can take a while... the scanner should only take up to 1 or 2 hours tops... if its any more or "hangs" on a certain % then you might have to do a repair install of windows... or you might have a virus... let me know if this helped, contact me with any other questions you might have at wdarea51@gmail.com i can answer almost anything
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The usual suspect for this is a virus protection program - like McAffe or Norton. Disable them for just long enough to run your scandisk and defrag, then turn them back on.
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oh lot's of stuff are running on there.If you hit ctrl+alt+del one time you will see everything that is running.Just shut everyhing off you don't need running and try again.It will still take hours if you've not done it in a while. Also make sure you have screen saver set to none.When it pops on it stops your defrag.
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Are you running windows XP?
First, go to start, then click Run. Type in "msconfig" and hit enter. Go to startup under msconfig. There you will see everything that your computer starts when you turn it on. I keep all of them deselected on my computer. So, deselect everything and then run your scandisk and defrag. Then go back into msconfig and select only the ones you want. Tell me if this works.
The reason I ask if you are running Windows XP is you could just hit Control+Alt+Delete and then go to processes or applications to see what is running.
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