I have problem also with defrag with W98_2nd on the drive that the Operating system resides. It keeps restarting just about every second, and never gets pass the 10% mark.

I have tried discontinuing - screen saver, on line, antivirus activities, firewall, every task/application that I could find, move the swap file to another drive - all without avail, and this is on freshly reinstalled drive & without any activities.

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and this is on freshly reinstalled drive & without any activities

Have you reinstalled all motherboard/chipset/video drivers and utilities just after reinstalling Win98 ?

Many people thinks that reinstalling Windows will solve all problems, but ancient generic drivers, such as on Win98 may not work properly and causes weird things to happen.

Chris

Hello,

Long long time ago in this forum, I had the same problem. I believe I was advised to run Scandisk in its normal mode and then run defrag. Worth a try?

Chris

Chris may be right. Try running a Windows Scandisk before any other thing.

If you find some lost clusters, discard them (do not convert them to files).

Hi snow. Welcome to SAF.

I split your question and its responses to its own topic. Please do not post your own problem into someone elses topic. That can get confusing to those trying to help. Just start your own.

Please click the "reply" button in this thread to post your results to the above suggestions. If they work, it may help others. If not, we can offer more suggestions to you.

Um. Just a quick question here, but if you just formatted the drive....Why are you trying to defrag it? It's not fragmented.

If you haven't already, try ME Defrag. Unzip the files to an empty directory (Folder) and run the defrag install batch file. When it's done you can delete the files from the directory.

You may have "one of those machines" that doesn't like defrag in normal mode. Booting to safe mode to run defrag usually clears up problems.

Here's a good article on defrag problems and resolutions.