defrag problems...

[Creatures]

well i defragged my HD 4 times with the normal Windows defrag program, nothing happened, so i thought ok, maybe something stops it, so i changed to O&O defragger, it looked like an awsome program, i defragged my c:\ partition in 10 minutes three times and i had only 500 fragmented files left (and i had 5000!!) so i tried this program at my second partition e:\ and it worked 2 hours (different defrag method) but it did nothing! it stayed on the same fragmented files like at the start of the defrag, i did that just once because it's no fun anymore

so has got anyone an idea??

i have enough free space, more than the program wanted (more than 10 %) i deleted most of the big files, and i had no other program open like antivirus, so what can i do??

Creatures

[JPMiller]

reboot and go into safe mode...then there will be less chance of conflicting programs accessing HD

[Creatures]

thx, good idea! will do that!

Creatures

I use O&O Defragger and it works well under XP. Sometimes this kind of trouble may happen.

Either do it in safe mode (inconvenient) or use task manager to stop all unnnecessary programs and then do it.

[Creatures]

most of them are protected so i cant cloes them! (programs like PGP or other things, like trojans and viruses of course j/k) sucks a bit

Creatures

[Gait_Keeper]

that's what I was going suggest, closing everything with task manager

Stumped now?? me that is

Creature, just back up your pictures/stuff and format your drive.

[Creatures]

noooooo i will never, because there are soo many files that i created and it would take weeks to copy that on CDs

and BTW i always copied one HD on the next, i have still win98 on this pc (not for long, already deleting it =)

Creatures