"TOCA"
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Nov 1, 2007, 4:38 PM
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The older Windos versions had this issue on Defrag, that if it was stopped
for anny reason, it would never start again, until you ran a clean
boot/fresh install.
Only sollutions:
1) Get hold of a Norton Utillities 4.0 or later, but no later than 2002, and
use that to defrag. It's faster and better than the windos one, and it can
help on keeping the registy clean.
2) Format C:, the ultimate sollution to most Windos problems, exept Windoze
itself ;o)
Your idea about using ME, might work, if the CPU is 150MHz+ and there's 64MB
RAM+
ME beats 95, and 98(SE) hands down, on preinstalled drivers, and the use of
USB, plus it installs directly from a bootable CD drive, if the BIOS
supports this.
98SE beats ME on anny other point, especially running old games, that needs
direct access to DOS.
Tommy C
"Crash Lander" <here@there.com.za> skrev i en meddelelse
news:eD8Wi.7331$CN4.6337@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>I have been given an OLD laptop. By old, I mean, this thing has labels on
>it
> saying it is designed to run with Windows 98, so I'm suggesting it's about
> 10 years old.
> It has a 4 Gig hdd, and when I got it, it was very slow, and full of so
> much
> crap it's just ridiculous.
> I have deleted over 1000 emails that were filling it up, and deleted
> everything I can see that is not necessary, I've run disk clean up, and
> now
> the hdd is about half full. There's still probably more stuff that can
> come
> off, but I'll deal with that later.
> Now, according to the system, it's not been defragged for almost 900 days,
> so I want to defrag it. I ran a thorough scan disk scan, and it found no
> errors. Next I ran defrag, and just as it's about ready to start moving
> files around, it gives an error saying it could not continue the defrag
> because it has found a problem, and I need to run scandisk. So, I run scan
> disk again, and again it finds no errors, and so I try defrag again. Still
> won't do it.
> I restart the computer in dos mode, and try to defrag from dos, but it
> just
> tells me defrag requires windows to run.
> Can anyone suggest a course of action to sort this out?
> The laptop will only be used for one of either 2 things. Haven't decided
> which yet. Either some simple games for my 4 year old, or I may keep it
> for
> flight planning for myself.
> Another possible solution I'm thinking might be to just format the hdd,
> and
> install Windows Me on it. I have Me on disc from an older computer. Would
> that solve the problem?
> Any advise appreciated.
> Crash Lander
>
>
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