theHammer Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Guessing that this belongs under Hardware but realize it is a software problem.... obviously been tinkering too much for just found could no longer defrag any of my four partitions under XP-Home - hangs reporting 10% completion. Need some leads.Of course ran scandisk then ran sfc.exe. There is a file, which I cannot recall that maintains the usage, which might be corrupt. I do have duel boot capability and under Windows Me was able to defrag all partitions (which are all Fat32) but returning to XP still hangs.Appreciate,Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengeek Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Try safe mode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FuzzButt Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Well I need more info.Windows XP? Home or Pro? Fat32 or NTFS. How large is the partition? how large is the entire hard disk? Anything else running in the background that might be using the disk? Is it your system drive? or another disk? Which Defragger are you using?I know you posted that they are Fat32 and it is going on on all 4 partitions. Has this happened before or is it just recently.All important questions. I have strange issues even with Diskeeper 7 defragging a 103GB partition on a 120GB disk It will hang at times during the entire process.on smaller partitions I can multitask while defragging and even defrag multiple partitions at the same time. Every once in a while I cannt defrag the C: drive or a volume needs to have CHKDSK ran on it first. If you are using the built in lite copy of Diskeeper in WinXP maybe an upgrade to the full version and then using the boot time defrag option might help.Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted June 11, 2003 Share Posted June 11, 2003 Make sure you have your screen saver turned off. Anything that kicks in like that will mess it up. Mine stopped at 10% until I remembered to set my screen saver for an unbelievable delay. That took care of it so maye you will be that lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theHammer Posted June 12, 2003 Author Share Posted June 12, 2003 Well Greengeek gave me the lead I needed. I sort of figured I had covered Safe Mode when I had success under Windows Me but when I ran under Safe Mode and XP it allowed me to defrag too. Started me thinking correctly about the possibility of some thing that I had added causing the problem rather than some form of corruption - and it was - Panda Titanium. To answer some of the other questions the problem was under XP-Home on a 40 GB HD with four partitions of FAt32 using C for Me and D or Home, E and F for programs. I do run disk images periodically but ran into this problem just before running a fresh image and did not want to resort too quickly to the last.Thanks all - will do some research on the Panda site. Starting to suspect a conflict between one of the latest Windows Updates and Panda. Ed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 Ed,The simplest solution would be to pause Panda while doing the scan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ibe98765 Posted June 12, 2003 Share Posted June 12, 2003 Or you could buy an aftermarket defragger like Perfect Disk:http://www.raxco.com/products/perfectdisk2k/It runs great on my system twice a week without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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