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"How can I defrag my hard drive?"

How?

Seeing as I start it in safe mode and it tells me I have to run scandisk to fix some errors..

But scandisk takes ages and keeps restarting for some reason...

I'm gonna leave scandisk on overnight to do a thorough scan...

Hopefully it will finish by tomorrow morning...

Why does it keep restarting though?

Hmmmm, it's in safe mode and the only program running is explorer!

I've also only got 3.5 gig left!

May have to delete a few things!

Thanks! Blimey, you learn something new every day!

Twain wrote:
> My Disk Defragmenter still shows 0% after too long, though.
>
> And what is Disk Cleanup? Is that basically the same as ScanDisk? What
> does it do?

Clears out temp files left after program installations, offline web pages, that sort of stuff.

Lol i have this proggy lets me do stuff and defrag....

My Disk Defragmenter still shows 0% after too long, though.

And what is Disk Cleanup? Is that basically the same as ScanDisk? What does it do?

§n][pe® wrote:
> I know just that it says something has exclusive use .... to the hdd

If you're using Norton or a virus scanner, disable them because they might be hogging it for something like disk optimization.

I only did scandisk because defrag told me I had errors...

I did a thorough scan and a defrag and it's all working nicely now!

Must I use scandisk before defragmenting? Because last time I tried defragmenting without using Scandisk first, and left it for three days and two nights, and it was still at 0%.

Cool, thanks.

I might finally get this thing scanned after all :).

Well, after 10 restarts it comes up with a screen asking if you want to see the warning again, I kept on opening the desktop properties, thus restarting scandisk 10 times in doing so, the message popped up and I told it to just get on with it's job and stop being a tart...

I then left it!

phi11ip wrote:
> I left it on overnight to do a thorough scan, it kept restarting but I
> turned off that warning thing...

How did you do that???