This may not be the same situation, but I recently had a huge problem
when McAfee caused the disk defrag operation to just stop, leaving me
with 342 mb of fragmented system files. I finally had to install a
second hard drive and reinstall XP. The information I get from Microsoft
is that there is an issue with McAfee, but so far no solution. This was
after I had disabled (I thought) my virus checker before starting
defrag. I hope this is not your problem.
M. Johnson
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