Defrag help

[Bueyehl]

Computer Guru's,

Here is the situation. Ten days ago I defragged my C drive and everything went well. I try to defrag at least once every week and a half. Well, two days ago I tried to defrag my C drive again. I closed all my running programs like I normally do. But now for some reason the defrag get stalled at 42%. I usaully defrag when I go to bed. When I woke up the next day it's still on 42%. So, the following night I tried to defrag again, but this time I watched the details of the defrag (pretty fascinating I might add). It quickly defragged until it got to 42% and then stalled. It didn't restart, it just stalled. The activity light on the computer was blinking heavily as though something was going on in there, but there was no movement on the defrag screen. Even when I exited the details the defragmenting image still showed that defragmenting was taking place. So I figured that maybe it was trying to defrag something on my C drive that takes time, so I went to bed. When I woke...still on 42%. Why? I'm running windows 98. Somebody Help Me!!!!

[glc]

1. Boot to safe mode.

2. Run scandisk in the thorough mode.

3. Delete the files in c:\windows\applog

4. Run defrag.

[Bueyehl]

I don't want to sound dumb, but I guess I'm going to have to. How do you boot to safe mode?

In the Applog file there was nothing in it, but I have a Applog2 folder with a bunch of "LGC" info in it. What are "LGC" files? Do I delete those?

[wh427]

First off... there's no such thing as a dumb question!

Second, to boot Win98 into Safe Mode, hold down the CTRL key from the time the computer turns on. That should do it!

[galaxian]

Is the available space on this drive low?
And, do you have large files on it?

If so, it will take defrag a long time to move these files around.

When defrag appears to stall, scroll to the very bottom of the details screen and you should see defrag activity. This is the area defrag uses as a temporary workarea to do it's work.

[glc]

Yes, the LGC files are what you need to get rid of.

[galaxian]

Except these LGC files are in \Applog2 not \Applog so they aren't coming into play during the defrag. (The rearrange of programs occurs in the early stages of defrag, at the 10% mark, so even if they were in \Applog they wouldn't (shouldn't) be causing this problem.

As a housecleaning exercise the \Applog2 folder can be deleted.