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| 7223 | 2000-11-26 09:48:00 | I am having difficulty defragging my hard drive. It only defrags up to 10% before coming up with the message 'Drives contents changed - restarting'. I would appreciate if you can advise how to overcome this problem. On the last attempt I did a scandisk first which took 3 hours to complete but still no joy with the defrag. | Guest (0) | ||
| 7224 | 2004-11-01 01:27:00 | I'm having exactly the same problem. I'e turned off all open applications, etc. exactly as per the article on p. 64 of the November 2004 issue of PC World, and tried the suggestion there. However, there is no Fast Find appearing on my system. I can do a thorough disk scan of the System area, but not of the data area. it keeps on restarting after about 10%, in the same way. |
ian.livingstone (241) | ||
| 7225 | 2004-11-01 01:36:00 | Woah... talk about raising the dead.... 4 year old thread ++ Try it in safe mode. |
whtafo (156) | ||
| 7226 | 2004-11-01 01:50:00 | If either of you are using win me/98se or earlier there's a useful prog called GEODisk2 (www.mvps.org) thats shuts down running progs that aren't needed , then clears out [some] not needed temp files , then does a scan disk , then defrags , then restarts the computer - leave it running overnight the first time you run it if it's taking a while . Shame it doesn't seem to run on NT of any flavour | KatiMike (242) | ||
| 7227 | 2004-11-01 01:53:00 | ... my bad , dave barker = 2000 ... not paying attention ... | KatiMike (242) | ||
| 7228 | 2004-11-01 03:51:00 | i wonder if hes gonna see this thread, no to find an older un answered one just to beat u all muhaha :p | Prescott (11) | ||
| 7229 | 2004-11-01 04:35:00 | Ian: don't take too much notice of these "clever" people who are acting upset because you revived an old posting to save yourself some typing. :O Welcome to pressF1. ;-) Using Safe Mode should get the defrag to run. The other cause for the problem might be a shortage of disk space. :D If that's the case, you could get rid of temporary files. You've looked at FAQ34 haven't you? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 7230 | 2004-11-01 05:08:00 | > Ian: don't take too much notice of these "clever" people who are acting upset because you revived an old posting to save yourself some typing. So that's why PressF1 is taking 2mins to load, and 30secs to reply to on an 8mbit Jetstream connection... It just degrades forum performance Graham and it is definitely not "clever" to keep bumping it up. Lock it. |
Azsen (155) | ||
| 7231 | 2004-11-01 05:14:00 | Lock it? we are here to help no matter how old the question is, because usually some body else has had the same problem, if we locked all threads that were bumped up regardless of dates, we would not always hear of the thanxs or how they fixed the problem, for once think of others, not how slow the site is. its here for a reason, are you? beetle |
beetle (243) | ||
| 7232 | 2004-11-01 05:16:00 | I dunno why you're saying this is PF1's fault. I only have dial-up, and I always get a page from this site to load in a few seconds. Admittedly I do run my access through a cache (this only caches images etc. - any text files such as html/php/asp etc. are loaded off the net directly), but even so the new content still appears pretty fast. Maybe it is your Jetstream connection? A few other people on this forum have complained about the slow speeds recently, and I think all of them are on jetstream of some sort. Maybe there is a bottleneck between telecom and the PF1 server? Bletch |
Bletch (244) | ||
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