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HELP! Can't run Defrag in Win2k!

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mricks86

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I need a little help! When I try to run Defrag in Win2k I get a message that says:

"Disk Defragmenter has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on volune C: Please run chkdsk /f."

Drive C: is my only hd and I have scheduled chkdsk to run when I restart windows (and it does) but even after it does, I still can't run Defrag. 🙁 Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 
Dunno why chkdsk isn't flagging your HD as clean... maybe it's finding something that it can't fix while windows is booted so you have to run it in emergency repair mode?

Try this:

1) Boot from Win2K install CD
2) Hit R for "Repair existing Win2K install"
3) select the emergency repair console option (this will give you a command promt)
4) from the command prompt, type chkdsk driveletter: /R
5) when this finishes, run defrag from the command line (works better that way anyway)
6) type "exit"
 
Thanks for the advice but when I got to the part where you said to run defrag, that isn't a command Win2k will let you use from the dos prompt. I typed help to see all the available commands and that isn't one of them. Let me know if anyone knows anything else!

Thanks!
 
That's the first thing I thought of doing, but I don't know how. 😱

If someone could PLEASE let me know I would appreciate it.

Thanks!🙂
 
Sorry, there are no tasks scheduled in the Scheduler and I don't even have it enabled to start when Win2k boots. Thanks for the input though! I'm running out of ideas, does anyone think re-installing Win2k would work? Is there any drawback to doing a complete re-installation because I ran through the "Repair Windows" installation already and that didn't fix the problem. 🙁
 
May be set to run in the registry. Easiest way to check is to use MSCONGIG (XP configuration program that also works in w2k).
 
Thanks for trying to help, but I think you mean MSCONFIG and that is a Win98 and below configuration utility that does not work with Win2k.
 
There's also one that comes with XP. It works in w2k. I forget where I downloaded it, but a google search should find it.
 
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