Follow all the previous tips, they were great!
However, if you are NOT running WindowsMe, you should be running the defrag
utility from WindowsMe...it is much faster and works fine on all previous
32bit consumer versions of Windows. I have used it to replace the original
utility on all my computers. To download and for instructions on replacing
your present version of defrag.exe, see the site below...
http://pub76.ezboard.com/fthecomputertechniciansfrm18.showMessage?topicID=52
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Marg Belliveau
----- Original Message ----- >
> From: Alex E Onslow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 4:04 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Defrag question
>
>
> > A couple of days ago I decided to defrag my hard drive because I hadn't
> done
> > it in a while. The problem is it kept restarting over and over again
> because
> > 'the drive contents had changed' even though I wasn't doing anything on
> > computer while it was defragging. Is this normal? It did defrag the
whole
> > drive eventually but it took around 4 hours. My hard drive is 20gb, by
the
> > way. I don't know the speed of it.
> >
> > Alex Onslow
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