Ok, so I took out my computer out of storage (it was in there for about 8 months) and decided to get rid of a lot of stuff on my computer. After doing so, I decided to defragment my computer… well, it doesn’t work!! It shows that it is defragmenting the C Drive but it stays on 0% (sometimes goes to 2% but always goes back to 0) even if I leave it for a loooooooooong time…it’s never done this before and I’m really confused…help!!!
I believe the rewriting of the swap file can make the defrag start over again. You can try moving the swap file to another drive or not using virtual memory during the defrag and see if that works.
Just save yourself the trouble and boot into Safe Mode and then do it. Something is writing to the disk during the defrag and making it start over. Doing it in Safe Mode turns off almost all such progs.
(BTW, in the future, pretty please state the type of machine and OS your are using as well as any other hardware/software particulars that may be relevant. I am guessing you are using a MS OS since you mention the C drive, etc.)
I ran into a unique problem with defrag the other day, with an interesting solution. It seems that Scandisk (under Win98 anyway), which runs at the beginning of the defrag process, may not complete if there are too many icons in the Quick Launch tray, even when run in Safe Mode. This user had about a dozen icons in Quick Launch, and after half of them were deleted, Scandisk and Defrag then completed normally.
2000 and XP can use NTFS or FAT32. I believe NT supports FAT instead of FAT32, but it’s been awhile since I’ve used NT, so maybe I’m wrong or it was added in a service pack. So much for that MCSE.
That’s because you upgraded from a FAT32 OS. A clean install of 2K/XP will give you the option with NTFS being the default. If you’ve already installed with FAT32, you can convert the drive to NTFS by typing convert c: /fs:ntfs at the command prompt. The conversion will not damage your existing configurations and data.
Search for NTFS in the Windows 2000 help to find out some of the advantages NTFS has over FAT32.
handsomeharry: repeatedly tap F8 while the computer is booting up.