Defragmentation problems

[Guest]

i cant seem to defragment my hard disk drive. when i try to run the program
the following message appears:

Defragmenter has detected that chkdsk /f is scheduled to run on the volume

Please run chkdsk /f

when i go to run from the start menu or the command prompt and try to run
the command "chkdsk /f", the following message appears

chkdsk can not be run as the volume is in use by another process. would you
like to run chkdsk the next time windows restarts? y/n

the problem persists even if i press y and then restart and come back to
disk defragmenter. can anybody kindly help me out?

 

[Danny Sanders]

Try booting into safe mode and run defrag.


hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[M8RIX]

What happens when you tell it what disk to check?
Type into the run box: CHKDSK C: /F

 

[Guest]

thanks! that helped. why didn't i think of that?

 

[Guest]

i tried doing that as well without success. please do read Danny Sanders'
reply as that seems to have resolved the problem. thanks for your suggestion.