Defrag XP-safe mode necessary?

[Guest]

Following up on my previous post: In Win98 I had to run defrag in safe mode;
is that necessary using XP?
Thanks.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

The reason for defragging in Safe Mode is to avoid loading applications at
startup that would otherwise write to the disk, thus interrupting the defrag
process. If you don't have any of these applications, you don't need to
defrag in Safe Mode.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. From 98, I would get the message that an app. was writing to disk,
restarted 10 times blah blah. I've defragged from XP once so far (not safe
mode) and all seemed to go well.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Generally, no. Unlike the defrag utility in Win98, the one in XP can work
past disk writes.s

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org