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| 442584 | 2006-04-01 00:04:00 | Back in the dim and distant ages, but had a look at a relations computer with 95a, HDD 2.8 GB, 128MB Ram, found the defrag and scandisk had'nt been run for about 6 months and hard drive space was low, retrieved 52 MB from the recycle bin, installed crap cleaner and retrieved another 200 MB. Shut down all programmes that I could see running. It stated 0% fragmentation which was ignored and it took 30 mins to slowly wend it's way through a defrag. Run Scandisk,which stated about 64,000 clusters, it stopped about every 30,000 clusters and restarted to check folders, (obviously something running which I could'nt find), it got to 150,000 clusters and I stopped it. Computer appears to be running OK. Question is why 150,000?, next step presumably is Scandisk in Safe Mode and recheck Startup list. Windows Explorer listed a fairsize game file Hellbender which did'nt show in Add/Remove or elsewhere but trying to delete folder resulted in Access Denied. Any comments appreciated. | FrankS (257) | ||
| 442585 | 2006-04-01 00:10:00 | If you look around the net, you might be able to find Windows ME versions of Defrag and scandisk which theoretically should speed up the maintenance portion. | bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 442586 | 2006-04-01 00:25:00 | What about restarting the machine to MS-DOS mode and run scandisk from there. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 442587 | 2006-04-01 01:29:00 | What about restarting the machine to MS-DOS mode and run scandisk from there. I'm pretty sure in 95 dos mode you need to use chkdsk c: Long time since i've been in 95. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 442588 | 2006-04-01 02:23:00 | Certainly, CHKDSK is the one for DOS. Use the "/F" option to fix automatically. Again, in DOS, deltree /y hellbinder will get rid of that game. If it complains about access, attrib -r hellbinder\*.* /s wil remove the readonly attribute in all files in hellbinder, including in subdirectories |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 442589 | 2006-04-01 09:53:00 | Scandisk has been available since MS-DOS 6.2 | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 442590 | 2006-04-02 00:20:00 | Thanks for comments, have retrieved the DOS Manual from it's dusty hole and will run CHKDSK. Re Access Denied have found following that may be of interest www.tech-recipes.com www.sysinternals.com |
FrankS (257) | ||
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