Illegal Defrag operation 1

[Rosebud]

Win 98 - I booted up in Safe mode ran scandisk successfully, but when I try to run defrag I get an immediate message that it has performed an illegal operation and must be shut down. I rebooted and tried again ... to the same effect.

Any thoughts about what might be wrong and how I can fix it?

TIA
Rosebud

 

[jmatt]

Go back to a good copy of the registry .

Toggle F8 ( when , verifying DMA pool message comes on ) or Press
Ctrl during bootup , depends on your computor .

Select , Command prompt only .

After the C prompt , type , scanreg /restore

Follow the prompts and select a registry dated prior to the problems .

This article describes how to restore a backup copy of the Windows 98
or Windows Millennium Edition (Me) registry
scanreg /restore

http://support.microsoft.com/suppor... restore&rnk=3&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=W98

Start the System Restore Tool from a Command Prompt in Windows XP (Q304449)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q304449

Restore Operation Failed (Q220878)
The information in this article applies to:
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q220878

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To improve on the 5 days MS have on registry backups , use the Cabrest system below & get 14 days .

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/howto/regback1.html

For those that find the above site confusing , here is what to do .

Alter MaxBackupCopies from 5 to 14 in scanreg.ini ( as per instructions at above site )

Download the zipped copy of the Batch file from ,

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/downloads/cabrest.zip

Unzip , copy & paste cabrest onto the top of C: in Windows Explorer .

Delete zip file , or save it on floppy , if you want it for others or the
future .

Print the instructions below & stick on your comp in front of you , so
when you have to go back to a good copy of the registry , you don't
need to search for them .

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Toggle F8 ( when , verifying DMA pool message comes on ) or Press Ctrl
during bootup , depends on your computor .

Select , Command prompt only .

Type in cabrest & press Enter , keep answering y & you will see a
table , which will allow you to select which CAB file to restore from .
So , for example , to restore from rb009 cab , you look at the table &
see 09 corresponds to the letter j . You type j & Not the number .
Follow instructions .

Type win & press Enter to exit .

If after following the instructions to Restore , things arn't
working , go to an earlier date & try again .

 

[Kento]

What's the error say when you click the details button? I'm gonna guess that it mentions Taskmon, am I right? Open windows explorer and then open the applog folder at c:\windows\applog. After opening the applog folder click edit--select all--file--delete--and delete every file in there. Don't worry they're safe to delete. Then see if defrag will run. If the files won't delete then delete them from safe mode.

 

[Kento]

jmatt i'm curious. What do all those directions for creating more than 5 registry backups have to do with an illegal operation in defrag error?

 

[jmatt]

Kento , I post the extra info for the future .
Without the error message & the registry restore works , it gives another choice of improving the backup of the registry .
I suspect your guess may be the fix .