I have seen this happen at least once, at it was due to a program running. (You can't even play most games while the defrag is running, since they record info and change a disk file.) Are you sure some other scheduled program wasn't starting up? That's what I encountered. But since you checked all those kinds of things, it beats me what's happening. Good luck, Ralph --------------
Cynthia wrote: > 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. **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 ==^================================================================
