I need to defragment my Gateway running Windows 98, because the performance has become horrible. When I run the defragmenter, it says "Checking drive for errors" and doesn't move one from that point (I let it go for 10 hours and it still said that). I tried to run the Scandisk first but it just gives me a message saying something like "Scandisk has restarted ten times because another program is trying to write to the drive." However, no other programs were open. Any idea how I can defragment?
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Defragmenter Doesn't Work
- Thread starter jmk2z
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Run defrag in Safe mode 1st , then download ME defrag .
Toggle F8 or press Ctrl key during bootup , choose
safe-mode .
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Windows ME defrag ( free ) , very fast . I don't need to close
( ctrl/alt/delete ) anything down to run defrag , no restarts .
Get it from here .
W9X-Me-Defrag
Download it right into your Windows directory. Rename your
current version of Defrag to Defrag.OLD, then rename
winme_DEFRAG.EXE to Defrag ( or whatever the old defrag
was named )
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To put the defrag in it's correct place .
Open Windows explorer , go down to Windows , left click on the yellow
folder , this opens the right hand panel .
Scroll down to defrag & write down the exact name . Next , right
click on defrag , scroll down to rename & click on it . Now left
click at the end of defrag & add the word old . So if you had the
word defrag , it now becomes defragold .
Now rename MEdefrag to whatever you wrote down , drag & drop it on
the yellow Windows folder or anywhere in the right hand side .
Both achive the same thing & Windows will after you close , put it
alphabetically . That's it .
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Also , to make ME Defrag even Faster for it's 1st run , from
Windows Explorer , Delete all the files ( except the read only file )
in Windows / Applog . Taskmon will rebuild the Applog file .
To view Applog , do this .
Windows Explorer > View > Folder Options > View , click on Show all files . Click OK .
Toggle F8 or press Ctrl key during bootup , choose
safe-mode .
----------------------------------
Windows ME defrag ( free ) , very fast . I don't need to close
( ctrl/alt/delete ) anything down to run defrag , no restarts .
Get it from here .
W9X-Me-Defrag
Download it right into your Windows directory. Rename your
current version of Defrag to Defrag.OLD, then rename
winme_DEFRAG.EXE to Defrag ( or whatever the old defrag
was named )
=================================
To put the defrag in it's correct place .
Open Windows explorer , go down to Windows , left click on the yellow
folder , this opens the right hand panel .
Scroll down to defrag & write down the exact name . Next , right
click on defrag , scroll down to rename & click on it . Now left
click at the end of defrag & add the word old . So if you had the
word defrag , it now becomes defragold .
Now rename MEdefrag to whatever you wrote down , drag & drop it on
the yellow Windows folder or anywhere in the right hand side .
Both achive the same thing & Windows will after you close , put it
alphabetically . That's it .
=================================
Also , to make ME Defrag even Faster for it's 1st run , from
Windows Explorer , Delete all the files ( except the read only file )
in Windows / Applog . Taskmon will rebuild the Applog file .
To view Applog , do this .
Windows Explorer > View > Folder Options > View , click on Show all files . Click OK .
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