W98 Notebook Defrag

[chuck4456]

I'm rusty at W98 these days. My friend's notebook has W98se. He defrags and it stops at 32%.
Hard Drive info in My Computer indicates that he has 88% disc space remaining. No viruses - no malware. Everything seems to be working fine. Is it because it just doesn't need defragging?

[rwest]

Try booting to safe mode and running scandisk first. After scan disk runs then defrag while in safe mode.

[chuck4456]

Hey, even though it's a few days later, thanx! I did that. It's working fine. Scandisk ran out with no errors indicated and defrag shot right thru. Actually, I didn't even do safe mode. He gave me all of those details by phone. Once I got my hands on it, I ran it myself. He must have jiggled something. I'll still do that if he has the problem arise again.

[Panama Red]

Now, if you want the Defrag to run faster, install the Defrag from ME and rename the 98 defrag as Defrag.old. Still run it in SAFE and it'll be done much quicker.