At 19:42 06/28/02, Kevin Nowicki wrote:
>I have a PII 450 256ram 16.8 gig HD running Win98se.  HD properties
>say I have 3 gigs empty on drive.  I ran Norton Utilities Speed Disk
>and got an error message saying it couldn't write to drive C: and
>then ran Norton disk doctor.  Disk doctor did its stuff, including
>scandisk, and reported no errors.  I run Windows scandisk and find
>no errors.  But when I do Windows defrag, it stops and I get BSOD
>of Error Writing to C drive, data or files may be lost.

Hi Kevin

Here's a possibility to consider before deciding that your drive
has failed.

It's possible that you have reached the limit on number of files
for the *root directory* of a drive. If you have way over a
hundred files [**] in C:\, try moving a number of them to subfolders
and see if your problem goes away. (If I'm right here, you won't
be able to create a new folder until you move some files from
C:\ to an already existing subfolder.) Once you have moved some
files to subfolders, create a new folder and move all non-system
files to that subfolder. Then see if you can run Defrag without
a BSOD.

[**] The number of files allowed in the root directory of any
drive depends on the total number of characters in all the file
names...so I can't give you an exact number.

Regards,
Bill

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