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G4IJL > WIN98 16.01.05 00:51l 42 Lines 1969 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re:Defragging Hard-drive.
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Sent: 050115/2339Z @:GB7NOT.#23.GBR.EU #:28268 [Arnold Nottingham] FBB7.00i
From: G4IJL@GB7NOT.#23.GBR.EU
To : WIN98@WW
> ZR2ACJ Opined with considerable skill:-
>> Defragging takes close to 7 1/2 (Seven and a half hours)! with about 50%
>> programs on the Hard-Drive.
>>
>> Before Defrag gets to 10%, it stops and restarts, with text, "Drive contents
>> changed".(This happens quite a few times!).
>
> It was a well known problem in Win98. It was nothing to do with virii or any
> other problem, just simply a matter of the disk being written to as a normal
> part of W98's operation. I seem to remember the solution to be something
> along the lines of starting the PC in safe mode and running defrag in that.
I confirm the safe mode trick as in use here. I have done that for years
since WIN98se got rather busy here. Safe mode disables most of the
drivers, so programmes do not keep going into the disk drives.
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