i have an ancient antique AST laptop with windows 3.1 and DOS uh some newer version. anyway when i try to run the defragment thing in DOS ("defrag") it scans my comp really fast and then says that it cannot drfragment because there are cross-linked files on the computer or something like that. any ideas?chkdsk /f from a DOS prompt. Then try it. If it is a late enough version, there will be a scandisk program included as well (6.0 or later,I think)

ver from a DOS prompt will give you the version, as well.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH im scared(dos always scares me, i don't know why). it gave me this when i ran chkdsk /s:

937 lost allocation units found in 13 chains.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)?

what should i do? :-?chkdsk /f, you mean.

These are crosslinked files, etc. Choose yes. Hopefully things will work. Obviously it doesn;t as it stands. It depends on which files are involved, and you have no way to tell. I personally never had a problem with this in my DOS days, except for two instances and these were quickly fixed by a reinstall.

Your signature says "MS-DOS rules". It can't rule if you're scared of it.well its really wierd but ya it rules but i'm scared of it

oh and ya i ment /fi did the chkdsk thing like you told me but it STILL won't defrag and when i try running chkdsk again it still shows the same thing with the 937 in 13 yadda yadda but now it won't let me do anythin with it it just loads something and says a bunch of crap and then just GOES back to C:\> :-?

oh and its dos 6.1 i think
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i did the chkdsk thing like you told me but it still won't defrag and when i try running chkdsk again it still shows the same thing with the 937 in 13 yadda yadda but now it won't let me do anythin with it it just loads something and says a bunch of crap and then just goes back to C:\> :-?