At 09:45 PM 12/14/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I am running Windows 98 2nd edition on a 400mhz athlon w/64mg RAM. When I
>now try to defrag, it starts, gets to 5% then restarts. Get message "Drive
>contents changed, restarting". Scan disk does a similar thing, continues
>to restart. I was able to run scan disc in dos. I have reinstalled Win 98
>with no success. Any help will be appreciated.
Start windows in safe mode, then scandisk and defrag (in that order). With
everything loading up in the background when windows starts, there's too
much going on during those two operations to let it finish. You'll probably
hear to do a ctrl-alt-delete and end task of everything but two items...
that takes up lots more time than just starting in safe mode and doing it.
Harlen Linke
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