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Solve : Windows 98- can't run disc defrag on Dell laptop? |
| Answer» <html><body><p>I have a 4 year old Dell Inspiron 5000 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/laptop-1066410" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about LAPTOP">LAPTOP</a> with Windows 98. I've tried to run disc defrag but whenever I try, it just stays on 0% complete, even after it's been running for more than 24 hours so I don't think my computer is really running disc defrag. I can't figure out what the problem is. Help, please? <br/><br/>~SarahCTry running it in safe modeHello Sarah, if you haven't use delindex.bat from <a href="http://www.burzurq.com">www.burzurq.com</a> now is the time to add it to your '98 bootdiskette AND put it on your HDD at C:\delindex.bat<br/><br/>You can then either run: C:\>delindex run , or: A:\>delindex run , and clear a lot of the old files that slow '98 down and become impossible to defrag such as the index.dat files.<br/><br/>You'll see the increase in the free-space on the drive before and after running delindex.<br/><br/>Now try defrag again. (You'll know that you can use the defrag.exe from ME which is a lot faster than the '98 defrag.exe.(?))<br/><br/>You can also use Diskeeper Lite which is free and lets you see the entire drive in one window, AND/OR you caninstall ScanDefrag which will defrag the drive at boottime. (After a re-boot and before loading Windows)<br/><br/>That is what I use on ME.<br/><br/>Another reason which sometimes occurs with '98 has to do with the drive cluster size.<br/><br/>This depends on your drive size and the size of any partitions you may have.<br/><br/>Some '98 <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/installations-1046047" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about INSTALLATIONS">INSTALLATIONS</a> run the disk utilities better when the cluster size is 8192 bytes per allocation unit.<br/><br/>You can check this by running ScanDisk.<br/><br/>Some other junk file cleaners I use on ME &<a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/amp-363144" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about AMP">AMP</a>; XP are EmpTemp which is great for storing cookies you want to keep & CCleaner.<br/><br/>It helps to have <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/enough-243504" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ENOUGH">ENOUGH</a> RAM, especially if you have been continually adding programs to your computer.tips info> ;)http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/defrag.html</p></body></html> | |