| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 41463 | 2004-01-12 03:59:00 | nortonsantivirus/defrag | luckysmum (1528) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 206886 | 2004-01-12 03:59:00 | I have a compaq presario S3060A running xp. I have put a new nortons antivirus 2003 in the machine in july 2003 and had no trouble. Then on 5th january I turned my computer on and it said I had to get new definitions as they were out of date. I run automatic updates and am on the net everyday so did not know how that could be so i checked the virus definitions date and it had gone back to july. So i rang nortons and got that problem fixed as i had uninstall/reinstall then down load lusetup.exe and i put that in and that fixed it. To day I tried to defrag and it got to 10% then stopped and said it can not defragment the files fragment 3 filesize 214kb filename programfiles/nortonsantivirus/qconsole.exe i tried 3 times and always the same message so i rang compaq they said turn nortons off then try again i did but still with the same result. So i rang nortons and they told me to start it in save mode then defrag which i did. But it only got to 12% then said defragment complete but could not defragment the files programfiles/nortonsantivirus/qconsole.exe. it only took 5 minutes and it went from12% to finish did it finish as last time it took 2 hours. can anyone help i hope i have explained enough. |
luckysmum (1528) | ||
| 206887 | 2004-01-12 04:14:00 | It doesn't matter if one or two files don't defrag, they were probably active at the time. Also, if it defragged fast the second time, it probably means that there wasn't much defragmentation to deal with anyway. Have a look at our FAQ section at top right of the PF1 page and you will find a section dedicated to defrag problems. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 206888 | 2004-01-12 04:29:00 | No i meant 2 months ago took 2 hours today it did not get past 12% at any time then went straight to finish. I did check the defrag section out but could not find anything like this. but when I analyse it it says it does not need doing. so does that mean when I defrag when it needs it again I have to do it in save mode again if i have the same problem. | luckysmum (1528) | ||
| 206889 | 2004-01-12 04:38:00 | It's probably a good idea to do defrag in Safe mode ... witghout waiting for it to complain. :D That operation "could" lose data, so they have built in a lot of protection. I regard it as like changing the engine oil in a car. You don't expect to be able to jump in the car to go to the shops while the sump is empty. :D It took hours a few months ago and only a short time now --- that's quite reasonable. The amount of fragmentation depends a lot on the way you have been using the computer. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 206890 | 2004-01-12 04:43:00 | ok thankyou i will do it in safe mode from now on and yes know it takes a while as I always take 1 day a month to do what I call computer housework example defrag./cookies/tempfiles and other stuff but thanks again as i said i will do it in safe mode now that i know how. | luckysmum (1528) | ||
| 206891 | 2004-01-12 08:50:00 | Don't forget to look at the FAQ though, there's a lot more info there. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 206892 | 2004-01-12 10:13:00 | I remember when we had our old AMD K6-2 450 mhz with about 32 megs of ram and a 20 gig hdd with about 2 gigs free it would take about 3 days to defrag. Probably didnt help that i would play games at the same time (but pause it) Now if im lucky it does it in 2-5 hrs witha AMD Duron 900 mhz with 192 mb ram same hdd |
MrBeef (342) | ||
| 206893 | 2004-01-13 07:18:00 | I think part of luckymums question was, seeing as the defrag only went to 12% then straight to finish, did it finish? She wasn't worried about the time it took, just that it went straight from 12% to end. No 15%, 20% etc. I would of thought it hadn't defragged successfully if it didn't go all the way. But sorry, can't help with any ideas. | supergran (108) | ||
| 206894 | 2004-01-13 21:54:00 | A leap from 12% to finished can happen in the twinkling of an eye if there is little fragmentation. It doesn't mean that defrag was not completed. Conversely, the interminable "several hour" defrag times are usually due to restarts rather than fragmentation unless you have amonstrous HDD and constantly change content all over it. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1 | |||||