Here's a disk maintenance question. On the advice of my computer repair guy, I used to run Norton Utilities Disk Defragmenter on my Macintosh. My Windows computer came with a built in defrag program as part of the maintenance wizard, and I have run it more or less regularly (usually less) for the three years I have had the computer.
Last week, it started acting funny. It gets started, and then it stops and tells me that Windows or some other program is writing to the disk and the disk contents have changed, so it has to start over - which it does. Because it goes faster over the part it has already done, it gets a little further before stopping each time, and it does eventually get through the whole disk. But it starts over probably twenty times in order to do it. I have tried closing all open programs (which didn't use to bother it - as long as I wasn't using the program) - even the Office Shortcut Bar on the side of the screen. This doesn't make any difference. I ran Norton Anti-virus (which I keep totally up to date) to see if there was some virus writing to my disk, but it found nothing. Is my disk starting to become unstable and blipping? Is some virus slipping by the Norton? Any clues here? Something else I should try? Thanks, -cynthia **Folkschool-list archives are at: <http://www.mint.net/folkschool/helpnet/archives.htm> Sponsored by Pine Tree Folk School ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84vzQ.a9gqS3 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
