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I think that my cable internet is the culprit. I haven't defragged in
a long time, granted, because I tend to do a wipe/reinstall before I
needing to scandisk/defrag. But this time around, I'm trying to avoid
all the hassle of this by attempting a disk image. But before doing
that I wanted to "backup" my storage partition which means
scandisking/defragging and I decided to do both drives anyway so that
what I also copy from C is clean.
Scandisk worked fine yesterday, I did that in DOS. But even with
everything shut down, defrag keeps getting interrupted. I started
this at noon yesterday and it's only managed to defrag 60% of just the
C drive alone. Every few minutes it has to go back to the beginning
and start up the process again. Then it gets 1 or 2% along, and
there's a change and it then goes back and starts from the beginning
again. <sigh> Very frustrating. Was wondering what to do besides
unhooking the cable internet (which I'm loathe to do).
I believe SOS had an app that will shut everything down for one but
don't know if the cable internet gets affected by this app, too, so
that it doesn't interfere with this process. I just did a search in
SOS' site, though, and couldn't find it as I don't remember what it's
called.
Does anyone remember what this app is? Or, perhaps, they know of a
better way? I know that the defrag will take time due to how long
it's been since I reinstalled on a clean system but it shouldn't be
taking this long.
I'd like to resolve this particular issue as the next bit, imaging and
then doing the formatting/OS resintall will take the rest of the spare
time I have today so that everything is more or less up and running
for the week.
Thanks and appreciate any help.
Cheers!
a long time, granted, because I tend to do a wipe/reinstall before I
needing to scandisk/defrag. But this time around, I'm trying to avoid
all the hassle of this by attempting a disk image. But before doing
that I wanted to "backup" my storage partition which means
scandisking/defragging and I decided to do both drives anyway so that
what I also copy from C is clean.
Scandisk worked fine yesterday, I did that in DOS. But even with
everything shut down, defrag keeps getting interrupted. I started
this at noon yesterday and it's only managed to defrag 60% of just the
C drive alone. Every few minutes it has to go back to the beginning
and start up the process again. Then it gets 1 or 2% along, and
there's a change and it then goes back and starts from the beginning
again. <sigh> Very frustrating. Was wondering what to do besides
unhooking the cable internet (which I'm loathe to do).
I believe SOS had an app that will shut everything down for one but
don't know if the cable internet gets affected by this app, too, so
that it doesn't interfere with this process. I just did a search in
SOS' site, though, and couldn't find it as I don't remember what it's
called.
Does anyone remember what this app is? Or, perhaps, they know of a
better way? I know that the defrag will take time due to how long
it's been since I reinstalled on a clean system but it shouldn't be
taking this long.
I'd like to resolve this particular issue as the next bit, imaging and
then doing the formatting/OS resintall will take the rest of the spare
time I have today so that everything is more or less up and running
for the week.
Thanks and appreciate any help.
Cheers!