My first time to send.  Excuse any impropriety.
Question below in body.


On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 16:51:45 EST "Susan S. Hays" <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>In a message dated 1/30/99 3:38:23 PM Central Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
><< -----Original Message-----
> From: Ding Marcelo
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard Disk Defrag
>
>
> >Greetings to all !!
> >
>
> >I was trying to Defrag all the drives after a thorough ScanDisk and
>it
> >only defrag
> >Drive C up to 10% and then it hangs the system I waited 15 minutes
> >before I tried to reset the computer and it no longer run the
>default MS
> >Scandisk.exe after reboot.I try to run Disk Maintenance and when it
>ran
> >Defrag.exe, it again hangs the unit when it reach 10%,a cold reboot
>have
> >the same problem result.
> >
> >Another question, Can I keep Drive C as FAT16 and convert all the
> >logical drives to FAT32 or  keep it as is.?
> >
> >Please HELP!!
> >
>
>  >>
>It is true what was said about the 10%.  It does look like it will
>never get
>past that percentage.  Disk defragmenter does take a long time.  Be
>sure all
>your programs running in the background are disabled or closed,
>otherwise disk
>defragmenter will have to keep restarting and it will take a much
>longer time.



But how does a newbie know what programs are running in the background
and which can, and should, be disabled?  I assume this is done via
Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but I'm not sure.

>
>Susan Hays
>
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