WINDOWS 2000 PRO - DISK CLEAN-UP WON'T WORK

[lorinser75]

I am operating on Windows 2000 Pro - Clean install

For some weird reason, the windows 2000 Disk-clean-up stop responding as soon as I specify which drive to be cleaned.

there is a window pop-up stating: "Disk Clean-up is calculating how much space you will be able to free up.....calculating"
and there is also a "progress bar" below it, BUT it stuck at about 20% (4 progress bars).

I can actually "Cancel" and go about my own business.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this? Any help WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thanks a lot

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: lorinser75
I am operating on Windows 2000 Pro - Clean install

For some weird reason, the windows 2000 Disk-clean-up stop responding as soon as I specify which drive to be cleaned.

there is a window pop-up stating: "Disk Clean-up is calculating how much space you will be able to free up.....calculating"
and there is also a "progress bar" below it, BUT it stuck at about 20% (4 progress bars).

I can actually "Cancel" and go about my own business.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this? Any help WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thanks a lot

I have the same issue using NTFS file system. It usually takes forever trying to calculate all the compressed files I guess.

 

[lorinser75]

I think you are probably right. This is really an NTFS thing, bec. my buddy's system with FAT32 (Windows 2000) doesn't have any problem.

Thanks Thor86.

 

[Mist]

The same thing happened to me and what I found works, is to restart your machine and boot into safe mode, (F8) and run it from there. It still takes a couple of minutes, but not nearly as long as the normal way.

Same with disc defrag, virus scans and so on.

Michael.