Greg,

"Write protected" means that you can't write to a portion of the C Drive
(you can only read it). Some program or routine has made a write protected
file, folder or program that is stopping Systemworks from completing its
job.  You can remove the write protect, rerun Systemworks, then re-enable
the write protection (there's probably a good reason it is enabled). I'll
leave it to someone else to tell you how to do this, as I haven't used
Win98 in quite some time.

John D.

At 11:18 PM 9/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Using Win98 2Ed and Norton Systemworks 5.04 disk optimizer, when the C
>drive is 80% optimized I get a window that says "Drive C is write
>protected" and there is no more optimization. I have found nothing in the
>Symantec data base to help define write protected.
>
>1.What does write protected mean?
>
>2.Can it be disabled and, if so, how? Would it help solve the problem and
>allow complete optimization?
>
>When running the Windows defrag after it gets to 20% defrag, I get "Error
>Defragging Drive C, Windows could not access this part of drive must run
>Scan Disk choose thorough".  I did this and get the message ID No: Defrag
>005. I have not yet gone to the windows data base for an answer to this.
>
>The computer seems to be working fine and I am not too concerned at this
>time but I sure would like to find out what this is all about. Any help
>would be appreciated.
>
>Greg Craig
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