scandisk & defragmenting

[Sissyprissy]

First of all Thanks to everyone who helped me with the virus problem.
I ended up getting a new cd-rom runs perfectly.
Here's the problem, My system crashed after the virus was removed. I had a friend reload everything but now I cannot run the scandisk or defragment. Everytime I run it,it says it started it ten times and asks if I want to continue. Thats all the farther it goes. Anyones help with be appreicated.
Kim

[smokin1]

You probably have programs running in the background that write to the drive, causing defrag to start all over. Do a Ctrl/Alt/delete to shut down all the programs that are running except for explorer and defrag (or scandisk), it should be good to go
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[Axel]

you can help us by posting what is in your task list when you do a <ctrl-alt-del>

Another thing that you can do is to reboot into safe mode ( when your computer starts up - the moment it says "starting windows 95", hit your <F8> key )

then turn off your screen saver program

( right-click on a blank portion of your desktop - select properties - select screen saver - then either set your screensaver to 90 minutes, or select 'none' for your type of screen saver)

then start scandisk and select to automatically fix errors.

Depending on how bad your hard drive is, it will restart several times - restart it for as many times as it takes, doesn't matter - I had a 1.6GB drive it took over 30 restarts on.....

Then - complete a defrag while you are here.

then reboot. you should be okay.

Then I'm installing new software, I perform these steps in-between each new program load. New programs almost always create temp files when installing. Not all of them are erased. As temp files are erased, they create blank spots atowards the end of the used hard drive space. Then you start a new install and immediately, the new program's files are written in these gaps - not a good start for a new program. I'd rather have it all loaded onto the same spot on the hard drive for the best performance.

So there's the why and the how - good luck.

[tlwhite76]

Also, if this system uses Win98 as its OS, run "configsys" and deselect those apps you don't want running at start up.

[Colonel Casio]

I think you should use Norton's Speed Disk. It is MUCH faster than the utilities provided by Windows!