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 The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering Mandrake Linux or Red Hat Linux CD sets along with our NOSPIN Power Linux CD... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml