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Re: auto defrag or disable it? 13 Years Ago by finito Defrag is good for your computer, to keep it responsive. Defragging like any I/O on the hard drive increases wear and tear, but that is something you have to accept. You must accept that with windows comes great errors. windows xp 13 Years Ago by danmcphail defrag disk will not start,please help Re: Can't de-frag-men-tize! 16 Years Ago by willcomp Defrag should always be run in Safe Mode otherwise it may have trouble starting and/or will restart before finishing resulting in an endless loop. Re: Help! Everything Has Become Choppy... 19 Years Ago by dlh6213 Defrag is safe, it won't destroy your files. Here are ….htm[/url] [url]http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/how-tos/defrag-faq.html[/url] You should probably run ScanDisk too. They… Re: Shut Down won't power off computer 20 Years Ago by inphoenix Defrag??????????? This is a new system w/new hard drives????????? Re: Occasional freezing on the PC 19 Years Ago by Dallas2009913 defrag, spyware scan, scan for errors on windows and drive, and jeez 128mb of ram on XP i dont know how you do it, i had 256mb on a computer and it was extremely slow, if you upgrade that ram, you would b suprised at how much faster it goes, especially if u go up to 512 ddr. Re: Defragmenting Windows 98's Partition with Windows XP (Dual-boot) 18 Years Ago by Catweazle Defrag away! Re: Put memory in my computer and now it doesn't work 14 Years Ago by plut0564 Defrag it once you get it up and running again. Cheers, Jim Re: Logical block address out of range??? 12 Years Ago by dimsums Defrag your hard drive first, then try burning as a lower speed. Defrag and Safe Mode problems 14 Years Ago by bunnyfugger …patched) and noticed earlier today that when I opened Windows Defrag and clicked the Analyze button for my C: drive,… Unfazed, I clicked the defragment button and performed a defrag as usual. Just to check that things had gone well… My questions are: Has anyone a solution for the defrag problem? and Has anyone seen this safe mode problem before… Re: defrag problem 19 Years Ago by DMR … changes to the contents/structure of your disk while defrag is running, defrag will quite often detect the changes and restart its… beginning. (Things like anti-virus software often interfere with the defrag process.) Re: Defrag and Safe Mode problems 14 Years Ago by caperjack 3-4 min is not a long wait for safe mode to come up ,wait a little longer , also a good free 3rd party defrag is defraggler ,by the makers of ccleaner another great free program ..you could try it and then check win defrag for same message after ! Re: Defrag and Safe Mode problems 14 Years Ago by bunnyfugger … and, as you correctly point out, it's solved my defrag problem (Yay;-). It was actually hiberfil.sys which caused the… in power options and Hey Presto! - no more problem. Windows defrag now reports, "No need to defragment this volume"… Re: Defrag and Safe Mode problems 14 Years Ago by caperjack … and, as you correctly point out, it's solved my defrag problem (Yay;-). It was actually hiberfil.sys which caused the… in power options and Hey Presto! - no more problem. Windows defrag now reports, "No need to defragment this volume"… defrag problem 19 Years Ago by cbk …. And had a problem with using the maintenance wizard to defrag and clean up hard drive. It kept restarting itself and… I had to defrag in "safe mode" However everytime I use the… Re: defrag problem 19 Years Ago by Catweazle … can tell you this! The absolute best way to use Defrag is to press <Ctrl> + <Alt> + <… task' everything except systray and explorer before you run the Defrag tool. That way all of the background programs and services… Re: Defrag and Safe Mode problems 14 Years Ago by jbennet Are you low on disk space? It cant defrag if you have less than (10%?) free space. Remember the system reserves enough space for the hibernation file as the total amount as your installed ram. And as for 3rd party defraggers, ive got diskkeeper (came with laptop) which seems to run fine (better than the vista one anyway, which is atrocious) Re: Defrag and Safe Mode problems 14 Years Ago by bunnyfugger …=jbennet;1056490]Are you low on disk space? It cant defrag if you have less than (10%?) free space. Remember the… Defrag Mac hard drive 12 Years Ago by stevenros … 10.6 user. One of my friends suggested me to defrag my drive in order to optimize mac performance. My friend… Mac support , it says that there is no need to defrag Mac OSX ie; 10.6. We should go for it… Re: defrag problem 19 Years Ago by caperjack When i use win98 i always used this program to shutdown all the programs running before i did a defrag in normal mode . [url]http://www.docsdownloads.com/enditall.htm[/url] Re: defrag problem 19 Years Ago by cbk … your advice, I closed all programs and was able to defrag in normal mode. However I believe I was "hijacked… Re: Defrag Mac hard drive 12 Years Ago by stevenros [QUOTE=jingda;1558539]Don't do this. What your friend say is wrong[/QUOTE] I used a third party tool to defrag Mac OSX. The application shown the status of my 500 GB disk which was fragmented very badly . After running the software, it improved my Mac performance by 7% (Approx). I think its worth using Mac defragmentation software. Defrag Problem 19 Years Ago by bdinglis I am having a problem trying to defragrament my disk. I run ChkDsk and the new Scandisk, Windows XP has a new program to replace Scan disk, but when I try to defrag it is back to square 1. So how can I trick Xp to run after I have done everything possible for it to run?? Defrag OSX 10.3.9 18 Years Ago by sweet*e*gma Is it necessary to defrag my G5, OSX 10.3.9? If so, how do I do it? And, will this help the forever rolling, "hour-glassing" problem? TIA Defrag XP ., REGULAR VS SAFE MODE 17 Years Ago by djm123 Why would someone say to defrag in safe mode vs REGULAR MODE? The issue stemmed from an APPICIATON error which I MAY not have have now What function key do I hit to do this???????? SAFE mode??? Whats the difference in the two, what does safe do that the other does not? Re: Defrag XP ., REGULAR VS SAFE MODE 17 Years Ago by fry … is nothing running in the background to interfere with the defrag process. Re: Defrag = loss of 38GB?? 15 Years Ago by GrimJack [URL="http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=16497&pid=108162&st=0&#entry108162"]This[/URL] thread may give you some ideas on what to look for. They mention something about deleting 'system restore points' after the defrag. Take a look. Can't Defrag and Download Vista 14 Years Ago by Frozo[BW] … Edition, Dell, Vostro 200 , 1012 MB RAM I can not defrag my computer. Everytime i scan for my computer to be… defrag it says that operating system and be improved. then i …click defrag after a few mins same message pops ups. Also everytime… Another Defrag Problem 19 Years Ago by deonnanicole I'm having a problem doing the disk defrag on my computer. I'm running Windows 98. My … isn't like the other person who posted a defrag problem thread....I set my up to run a… defrag a couple of nights ago, and was just going …that's what it said). I've run the disk defrag before a couple of months ago, and it did … auto defrag or disable it? 13 Years Ago by steve charles …said backup your data before you do defrag now windows 7 & vista have auto defrag function. I have windows vista on… this pc, I had auto update and auto defrag before. NTFS file system corrupted and need to restore many… every a few years. They have auto update and auto defrag on. I wonder if there are any connection ? thanks sorry…