i cant tell why it did that but i can give u a site to get a prog called
power defrag it defrags on boot up so nothing is running at the time u
defrag it has worked really well for me so sorry if i didnt help u but have
fun jerry the fatboy crider.  http://www.e-technik.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "H-Shayto" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 12:45 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Can't Scandisk/Defrag a Particular Partition


> Hi
>
> I have win98se on Pentium 233 machine with 4-partitions: C, D, E, F.
> (C= my OS, D= my data files, E= my installations, F= my backups)
>
> The problem is I cannot scandisk or defrag 'E' under windows:
>
> Scandisk goes back and forth between 'checking file allocation tables'
stage
> and the 'checking folders'
> stage ... until a message pops up saying that something is writing to the
> system (?)....
> despite the fact that other progs were disabled via the 'end-it-all' tool.
>
> Scandisk however, worked fine from DOS.
>
> Defrag would stay at 0% for over 5 minutes until I quit out of impatience
> (HD red light is on).
> But under safe mode, Defrag worked ok.
>
> Could you please explain what's wrong.
> Hass Shayto
>
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