Re: [LUG] defrag, win98 and linux boot loaders

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks starting win 98 in safe mode now allows me to defrag nicely,  Why 
can't windows tell me this rather than just asking me if I want to 
resume with the operation because it keeps stopping,  a simple 
suggestion is all thats needed.

paul

Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 18:59:28 +0000
> Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
>
>
> > I guess starting it in DOS mode and running Scandisk would be an even more 
> > sure-fire way of doing it.  I have vague memories of trying to defrag and 
> > Scandisk eventually giving up because something was writing to the disk.
> >
> > Sorry I'm a bit sketchy, it's a very long time since I owned a Windows PC...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jon
>
>
> I seem to recall that dropping to DOS-mode to do such things was not always advisable... particularly if you had a large harddrive.
>
> Grant.

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