Win95's Defrag is notorious for not being friendly with
Win95's screen savers.  Before you Defrag, turn off your
screen saver and all power saving software (best to be
plugged into a wall outlet so you don't drain your battery
too far).  For some reason, programs that operate on a timed
basis (screen savers, power saving) cause Defrag to reset
itself.

Hope this helps.

Joe Pearson wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have been unable to completely defragment my 800MB disk since I got it
> ... which is obviously not recently.  I carefully close all programs
> visible on the screen, in the system tray and in the c-a-del task list.
> The only things left are the power icon in the systray (I'm using a
> laptop), explorer and systray in the task list.  The OS is Win95 without
> SP1.
>
> Defrag runs fine except that every 5 minutes (to the second) it stops
> and restarts from the beginning - reading the FAT table, and scanning
> from the start of the disk all the files already defragged - this takes
> longer in each 5 minute cycle, so each achieves progressively less.
> I've left it overnight and still not got beyond 70% of the disk.
> Looking at all files on the disk by most recent date the only file that
> seems to be updated is SYSTEM.DAT.
>
> What could possibly be causing this?
>
> Thanks
> Joe Pearson
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