Defrag

[Graham Haslam]

Hi all,
have been looking for a thread about defrag (XP Home), wanted to look before
posting,
I used to do as you say in your reply to newtoxp,

"One way to access: go to "local disc", "C Drive" rt. click, open
"properties" click "tool" tab.
Should have "error checking" if clicked on will ask you to run after reboot,
click yes,
upon next reboot program will run."

I used to do this successfully, now a couple of months ago it will not run
on reboot, also when I try to do a defrag it tells me that it detects
'chkdisk' is scheduled to run, please run 'chkdisk', but as I have said
earlier it will not run no matter how many times I reboot.

I hope this is not to long winded, also that you may have a solution.

regards
Graham

 

[Guest]

Running Chkdsk after a reboot is fine, but running a Defrag after a
reboot is unnecessary. Under Defrag click Analyze to see if the
Defrag is actually needed before doing it.

 

[Graham Haslam]

Hi Byte,
thanks for your response, but that is my problem, if I even click on Analyze
a pop up tells me 'Chkdsk'
is scheduled to run, please run 'chkdisk', but as I said giving 'chkdisk'
permission to run after reboot,
it does not run.

Regards
Graham

 

[Guest]

Disregard running Chkdsk or Defrag after each reboot. You are
overtasking your PC doing that and will do more harm than good.
I run mine about 10 hours per day, and run Chkdsk and Defrag on
the first day of each month. Also, check below website, for you may
have a minor problem with your Defrag app.
Fix Windows Built in Defragmenter
http://www.andreasroom.com/HowTo/WindowsDefrag.aspx

 

[Graham Haslam]

Hi again Byte,

I may have interesting news for anydody else having my problem,
because I could not afford new updates for 'Norton AV', I now have a free
AV prog from ntl,
so I uninstalled 'Norton' and as prompted rebooted, low and behold on the
restart 'Chkdsk'
started to run and said I need to check one of the discs. so it ran and now
all is fine with
the defrag 'analyze. Going back to Norton could it be one of their updates a
few months ago
that interfered with 'Chkdsk'?

Thanks again for your help Byte, I hope the above is understandable.

Regards
Graham