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| Thread ID: 34170 | 2003-06-06 01:14:00 | ? Does DeFrag 'hanging' = HDD failing ? | Woof (2402) | Press F1 |
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| 150184 | 2003-06-06 01:14:00 | Last night when I spontaneously decided to defrag my C drive it seemed to 'get hung up' at around 71% So I tried pause a few times to let it catch it's breath (was CPU getting overloaded = hot ?) and then finally clicked 'stop' (while holding my breath) Then I tried DeFrag again and this time it seemed to be hung up at about 41% An even bigger holding of breath while I stopped defrag and restarted (it started up again okay) and did DeFrag again. Memory failing me a little here but I think this is when it wizzzed thru defrag and completed the task. However, while I'm dragging my feet about backing up in preparation for a reformat and reload I am concerned that the HDD may showing signs of decay .. 1997 P2 @ 233, 6.4 HDD, Win ME Does anyone else recognise these symptoms (as pointing to HDD aging or whatever) ?????/ |
Woof (2402) | ||
| 150185 | 2003-06-06 01:17:00 | have you tryed defrag the hdd in safe mode???? | stu140103 (137) | ||
| 150186 | 2003-06-06 01:29:00 | Does the HDD still keep working? It may be moving a large file? Run Scandisk :-) |
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| 150187 | 2003-06-06 01:47:00 | Thanks , both of you. Safe Mode - yeah I should investigate how to boot into safe mode and to perform 'key'tasks therein .... Good idea Chil - that was going thru my mind when this was happening. Although I seem to regularly do scan disk - right after it crashes in the middle of OE downloading large email attachments . Mind you even that seems like it was a while ago, because I since dragged all my saved mail folders OUT of the inbox (crash) so the inbox is a now more normal size. I guess I should defrag a little more regularly AND get a wriggle-on with format and reload ... |
Woof (2402) | ||
| 150188 | 2003-06-06 01:54:00 | Yes, Defrag should always be done in Safe Mode. Give the poor system a chance. :D (It's a major operation on the disk, and however well the programme was written there is always a chance of losing data.) If you are doing other things at the same time which write to the disk, you are making it try to work on a constantly changing disk. | Graham L (2) | ||
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