Avoneer
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 07:52 PM |
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Windows Defragmenter Broke
It won't work anymore.
Screen appears and when I highlight a drive and click on analyse or defragment button, it doesn't start and the analyse/defragment button
returns to a "clickable" state.
Any ideas anyone?
Only thing I can think of is that I renamed the hard drives earlier, but it still won't defragment or analyse even when I changed them back to
what they were before.
Pat...
No trees were killed in the sending of this message.
However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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the_fbi
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 08:08 PM |
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You tried defrag from a command prompt?
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RichardK
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 08:09 PM |
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Maybe Windows is sooooooo happy with your drives it really doesn't think they should be touched 
Seriously what OS are you using?
Got enough free disk space spare? Have you run chkdsk? Anything in your eventviewer, (run eventvwr.msc) if there is go to www.eventid.net to find
out what them dodgy looking numbers mean
Regards
R
[Edited on 16/5/06 by RichardK]
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BKLOCO
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 08:21 PM |
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Get a decent defrag program.
The windows one is a pile of poo anyway
O&O is good.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want!!! 
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Avoneer
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 08:57 PM |
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Win2kPro.
Not tried a Checkdisk or from command prompt - give us a clue!
Pat...
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RichardK
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 09:03 PM |
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Try Start button, the Run Button the stick in chkdsk to check the disk or to run defrag in the run box type in cmd and press enter a black dos box
will appear, then type defrag c: -a and press enter if the drive you want to anylise is c: remove the -a to start defrag
[Edited on 16/5/06 by RichardK]
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Avoneer
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 09:28 PM |
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My dos box says "defrag" is not recognised as an internal or external command.
Pat...
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However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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RichardK
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 09:38 PM |
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Sorry pat, forgot win2k doesn't support command line defrag, detail here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q223146/
Think it a 3rd party solution, BKLOCO's suggestion is a good one.
There is a small command line version that I used years ago can be found here
http://www.morphasys.com/autodefrag/
Sorry can't help further
[Edited on 16/5/06 by RichardK]
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the_fbi
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 10:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Avoneer
or from command prompt - give us a clue!
Sorry, I'd presumed XP and hence the clue was in the question 
May be worth checking your event logs to see if anything is being logged when the GUI defrag isn't doing what it should.
Right click "My Computer" / Manage / Event Viewer.
System & Application logs.
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Peteff
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 11:09 PM |
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Try defrag in safe mode. If a background application is running like antivirus it will restart from scratch.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 06:37 AM |
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Are you logged on undera user name that has full admistrator privillages ?
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James
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 09:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Are you logged on undera user name that has full admistrator privillages ?
Good suggestion.
That's just dragged up an old memory from my desktop support days!
Cheers,
James
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tks
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 10:47 AM |
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nahh
else the program wouldn´t start, show up.
The problem wich i think you have is that the "disk" service isn´t running or has a problem. maybe its disabled??
go to services and look at the services names...
think its called diskservice
Tks
The above comments are always meant to be from the above persons perspective.
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