Defrag in win98 crashes machine; Win2000 and defrag is stable

[Gladwin]

I dont have a problem going into win2000 to defrag my hard drive
partitions, but I am curious why my machine crashes in win 98.

The system is:
Abit KT7A-Raid
AMD 1200 MHZ Athlon
256 Meg Kingston ram
EVGA Geforce2 MX 32 MB vid card
IBM 75 gig Harddrive
Realtek NIC
Asus 52X cdrom
Lian Li case
300 W power supply
Swiftech 462 heatsink / Delta fan

and I run at 34 deg C idle and 39 deg C under load.

 

[Budman]

Win98 is unstable,win2k is Stable.

there's your answer.

 

[Scouzer]

Win98 is rock stable for me...

 

[Gladwin]

I guess after my eval copy of win2000 expires, I will have
get normal license for 2000 then.

Win98 crashes sometimes when I install programs also. Last
one was Europa Universalis. No problem installing the game
in Win2000

Can I use ZoneAlarm in Win2000? I have a hardware firewall, but
it doesnt block outgoing connections, so I want to keep ZoneAlarm.

 

[Renob]

budman it sounds like a user problem if you cant get win98 stable It is very stable.

 

[Budman]

Yes Zonealarm works fine in Win2k,just grab the lastest version.