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If you have continuous recycle problems the best thing to do is initially go to
the close program box via- CTRL-ALT-DELETE and close everything except for
programs that Windows needs to run. This should make it cycle less.
Terrence
sptradr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A.J. wrote:
> >Are you sure you are talking about defrag? Sounds like you mean scan here.
> >There's no way a PC can do a defrag of even the smallest drive in less than 2
> >minutes. I run a PII 266 w/256MB on a 4 gig drive, and while I've never
> timed the
> >defrag, it takes a LOT longer than this.
>
> Defrag on my PC (4 gig HD, 2 gig partition, 200 MMX, 96 MB) takes about 10
> minutes now ...that's full defrag and error checking. The longest time was
> around 20 minutes.
>
> Sometimes the defrag program will cycle over and over. When that happens,
> I shut down the computer and power off (cold reboot), then run scandisk
> first followed by defrag. Never had any cycling problems with defrag after
> the cold reboot.
>
> -Tony Haas
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