>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.
*** Forget to say I also stop the screensaver.

>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
>Dimension Data Consulting
>Johannesburg
>South Africa
>Direct: +27 11 709 1112   Mobile: +27 83 454 6033
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