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Defraging problems

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Kirkendall

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Help,

I have been having problems with my defragging utility. Everytime I try to use the defragging it locks up my system and I have to physcially turn off the button. This happens everytime. It's been over 112 days, so it says, since my last defrag. I tried to run a scan disk and it says "checking file allocation tables" and the whole PC, again, locks up. Nothing was installed to all of the sudden to prevent this utility to stop, nor was anything downloaded. It just stopped. I work at a computer corperation as a PC support analyst and this just completely stumps me. I tried to delete DEFRAG.EXE and then re-installing Windows 98 SE but the same thing happens. I think that there is a problem with either the registery or the actual hard drive. But the scan disk utility doesn't work. I tried to use DiskKeeper 6.0 for Windows 98 SE and the same problem happens which makes me think that this problem lays within the harddrive or registery and not the actual application. My hard drive is a FAT32. I've gone through any and every available option that I know and everyone in my department knows. We are all stumped. If anyone has any suggestions or anything, please let me know. Any help would be greatly appricated. Thank you in advance.
 
That is indeed a strange problem......only thing I could suggest unless ya tried already is to make sure any screensavers are turned off, do a ctrl+alt+del and disable all programs running in the background except explorer..of course. Then run your Scandisk and Defrag Utilities. If that don't work, try going to the manufacturers website of the HD and download utility to check drive, maybe you can do a scandisk in DOS.
Best of luck to ya.
 
I think I found it. I ran in safe mode and determined it was my Virus Protection causing a conflict with both utilites. Thank you for all of the suggestions.
 
Running Scandisk in DOS always seems to help my machine. It works a lot better than running from Windows because Windows always wants to access the drive and forces Scandisk to start over. That doesn't happen in DOS Scandisk.
 
You may want to run System File Checker in system info/tools, to check for a possible corrupt user.exe file while your at it, as that causes those symptoms on occasion too.
 
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