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Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to defrag it,
and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might casue
this, let me know.

Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:

> Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to defrag it,
> and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might casue
> this, let me know.

What or who tells you you have to?
Harddrive or partition nearly full?
If you *really* must defrag, do it in safe mode without any other programs
running, over night, after you cleaned out as much as possible - including
the internet cache(s), temp directories.
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Why do you have to defrag every day? I doubt that
anybody has a crystal ball that actually works.

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:51:49 -0400, in
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Joseph McQuade Sr. scrawled:

>Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to defrag it,
>and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might casue
>this, let me know.

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Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:
> Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to defrag it,
> and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might casue
> this, let me know.

Could be: http://www.guttedgeek.com/CC256C7A00.../0/CWIS-5QJELW

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Walter Mautner wrote:
> Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:
>
>
>>Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to defrag it,
>>and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might casue
>>this, let me know.
>
>
> What or who tells you you have to?
> Harddrive or partition nearly full?
> If you *really* must defrag, do it in safe mode without any other programs
> running, over night, after you cleaned out as much as possible - including
> the internet cache(s), temp directories.

BY the way the system is running the "crunching sound" that the drive
makes when it needs to be defragged. Thats how i know it needs it. After
I defrag, its good til I reboot, then its all weird again. So Im just
curious on what might fragment the drive so bad.

Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:

> BY the way the system is running the "crunching sound" that the drive
> makes when it needs to be defragged. Thats how i know it needs it. After
> I defrag, its good til I reboot, then its all weird again. So Im just
> curious on what might fragment the drive so bad.

Appears you got some background application (indexing service or whatever)
that tries to do some job, and gets interrupted by defragging. When the
"drive crunching" starts and you do nothing, is the harddrive led
flickering nevertheless?
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Walter Mautner wrote:
> Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:
>
>
>>BY the way the system is running the "crunching sound" that the drive
>>makes when it needs to be defragged. Thats how i know it needs it. After
>>I defrag, its good til I reboot, then its all weird again. So Im just
>>curious on what might fragment the drive so bad.
>
>
> Appears you got some background application (indexing service or whatever)
> that tries to do some job, and gets interrupted by defragging. When the
> "drive crunching" starts and you do nothing, is the harddrive led
> flickering nevertheless?

while the crucnhing sound is being made, the led is solid on, and then
when it gets done, it goes back to normal acting fast and responsive
like it should. I've tried uninstalling programs I had installed to see
if that would help[, It seems to happen at random and with random
programs.

°Mike° wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:27:04 -0400, in
> <uNednXOK4fyoZSPcRVn->
> Joseph McQuade Sr. scrawled:
>
>
>>Walter Mautner wrote:
>>
>>>Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to defrag it,
>>>>and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might casue
>>>>this, let me know.
>>>
>>>
>>>What or who tells you you have to?
>>>Harddrive or partition nearly full?
>>>If you *really* must defrag, do it in safe mode without any other programs
>>>running, over night, after you cleaned out as much as possible - including
>>>the internet cache(s), temp directories.
>>
>>BY the way the system is running the "crunching sound" that the drive
>>makes when it needs to be defragged. Thats how i know it needs it. After
>>I defrag, its good til I reboot, then its all weird again. So Im just
>>curious on what might fragment the drive so bad.
>
>
> "Crunching sound" from your drive? Back up your valuable
> data NOW, and go shopping for a new hard drive.
>

I've had plenty of drives in the past that have made that same sound.,
defraged it and the sound vanished, til it needed it again. usually
about 1-3 months is my avg, So this one has me baffeled.

Rôgêr wrote:
> °Mike° wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:27:04 -0400, in
>> <uNednXOK4fyoZSPcRVn->
>> Joseph McQuade Sr. scrawled:
>>
>>
>>> Walter Mautner wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joseph McQuade Sr. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Im running winxp home it seems that almost ever day i have to
>>>>> defrag it,
>>>>> and i havent figured out why. If you have any ideas to what might
>>>>> casue
>>>>> this, let me know.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What or who tells you you have to?
>>>> Harddrive or partition nearly full?
>>>> If you *really* must defrag, do it in safe mode without any other
>>>> programs
>>>> running, over night, after you cleaned out as much as possible -
>>>> including
>>>> the internet cache(s), temp directories.
>>>
>>>
>>> BY the way the system is running the "crunching sound" that the drive
>>> makes when it needs to be defragged. Thats how i know it needs it.
>>> After I defrag, its good til I reboot, then its all weird again. So
>>> Im just curious on what might fragment the drive so bad.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Crunching sound" from your drive? Back up your valuable
>> data NOW, and go shopping for a new hard drive.
>>
>
> He may only be experiencing the effects of a hard drive that's nearly
> loaded to capacity and/or insufficient RAM. The crunching sound might
> just be normal hard drive activity when it has to be overactive.
There is 14 gigs of 20 avaible at this time, and it still does this. I'm
starting to wonder if it is the page file unloading... Any idea's ???