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| Thread ID: 22679 | 2002-07-27 04:47:00 | Defrag & Safe Mode | Lucy (182) | Press F1 |
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| 65933 | 2002-07-27 04:47:00 | I asked about my defrag troubles a few weeks ago, lots of good advice BUT.... have tried to put my computer into safe mode by pressing CTRL and also tried F8 none of these work, no safe mode. Makes a nice noise though!! Two days I've been trying to defrag, a bit of success, have gone from 10% to 14% to 29% and today I got to 54%!!! But the whole thing freezes! I left it for 1/2 an hour to see if it would start again, but it didn't. Did a scan disk today, but when I went into My Computer and right clicked on C drive, Properties it says I haven't done a scan disk??? Is it worth doing a Thorough scan? Driving me demented!! | Lucy (182) | ||
| 65934 | 2002-07-27 04:54:00 | hold the shift key down all through bootup. hit shift when you see "starting windows..." |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 65935 | 2002-07-27 04:54:00 | Control key: Hold down before starting computer and only release it when the menu offering safe mode comes up F8 key: Press repeatedly until you accidentally hit it at the right time (I'm sure there is an exact time to hit it but not knowing what it is makes it hard to time it) |
Heather P (163) | ||
| 65936 | 2002-07-27 04:57:00 | Make a boot floppy, and do it from that. ;-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 65937 | 2002-07-27 05:02:00 | It is quite important to Scandisk before Defragging, else Defrag could be trying to move bad stuff around. If you havent done a thorough scan in a while, then you should do that rather than a Standard scan, just to give you the assurance (or otherwise) that no bad sectors have developed on the hard drive. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 65938 | 2002-07-27 05:08:00 | Hi I tried to get help on this topic in the FAQ section last week. It seems nobody could quite 'remember' fully how it is done. Too many vague replys for me + insults. In the end I closed down ALL tasks by pressing Ctrl/Alt/Delete then selecting> End task, except 'Explorer' & 'Systray'. I suspect my problem was NAV still running even in 'Safe Mode' Good luck.P |
Peter (676) | ||
| 65939 | 2002-07-27 05:19:00 | I think the problem with fast computers is that there is hardly time to press F8 or whathave you immediately after it says " Starting Windows 98" on the boot up screen, I think many people dont even see that message, and possibly, just possibly it isnt even there on brand computers with their own bios, like HP. I dont know what you do for ME or XP. The other way, which used to be recommended frequently is to use a utility called Power Defrag. There was also a bug in this which allowed you to scandisk too, even though that option was greyed out. :) Get PowerDefrag 2.0 Lite, which is the free version from: http://www.powerdefrag.com/ It's just possible that you will find scandisk will work too. Unfortunately you cant run Defrag from a boot floppy, as it's a Windows program, but you can run scandisk though. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 65940 | 2002-07-27 06:00:00 | OK Lucy I have a Win ME puter and have just tried the following method and not a problem. Start/Restart press F8 repeatedly (computer will beeeeep and annoy you) Dos screen will appear 4 choices 1-4 # 3 will be Safe Mode use the arrow keys to navigate to the # 3. Press Enter and you should now be going into Safe Mode. Have fun I did, after that I have not had to use Safe Mode since (He said rubbing the top of his bald wizardly head), but then with out fail I do a DeFrag on a Wednesday. cheers merlin-nz ;) |
merlin-nz (275) | ||
| 65941 | 2002-07-27 06:16:00 | Hi Terry That's the second time I've seen reference to Power Defrag allowing scandisk to work . Is this confined to one version of PDf? I have tried two versions so far and although neither allowed scandisk to run, I had to dump the second and revert to the earlier version because the updated version wouldn't even run defrag properly . It kept locking up my computer part-way through the start-up process . Anyway, how could you start scandisk if the option is greyed out? I'm not averse to paying for software and in fact I have paid for the full version of all the freebies I've tried except Acrobat, but I'd like to try this one first before I cough up the cash . Is there a particular version number to look for, a different download site to check, or a technique to use to trial scandisk? Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 65942 | 2002-07-27 08:46:00 | Well Billy, Ive got version 2.0 Lite, unregistered, and it runs scandisk. The option is not really greyed out, it is the window thats grey. I cant explain it. Other people found the same, and maybe the program authors originally made a mistake and have since modified it so that only the Defrag side works, as intended, and it no longer does run Scandisk. I dont use it any way, I downloaded it to see how it went. I used to just close things down in systray, and run the standard MS Scandisk and Defrag. I found Safe Mode a pain as it mucked up all my desktop icons, but since getting Norton System Works I use that in preference to the MS utils. Norton Speedisk seems pretty good. I still have the PowerDefrag installation program sitting in my download folder, for reference it is pwrdef20.exe, 1,777KB, and downloaded 4/13/01. I will run PowerDefrag again, and then come back and post the results. Cheers |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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