Can't defrag drive

[Power-B]

Hi all I'm having trouble Defraging my drive,
it's get's to 10% and just keeps looping
back to the beginning again. i'm using
the defrag program that comes with windows.

[Dominus]

Thats because you have a windows program open that is writing to the disk. Either shut off ALL windows programs, or exit to the DOS prompt and run defrag.

[Bleeding Edge]

Disable any utilities that may be running. Such as, anti-virus programs or any thing that may be accessing the drive at a given interval. Best disabling it all to find out which one is causing the defragmentation process to reset. Might want to try turning off power management settings also.

[BBA]

Ditto.
Also with WIN98. I cant do it unless I turn off APM and screensaver.

BBA

[CMonster]

You are getting good advice; the only thing I would add is to doa thorough scan disk before defrag.

[socalgal]

Close all programs (except Explorer and Systray), run scandisk, then defrag. If you are still looping, which you shouldn't but sometimes it happens, close Explorer and Systray too.