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msgoodwrench
May 9th, 2003, 11:09 PM
I have this junk hp pavilion that has a thinking problem. its about as fast as a 486.... I know I have all these programs and what not running and taking bandwidth. but I have been trying to run defrag since forever and it ALWAYS get interrupted. I have closed all programs in the dialoug box except for : explorer, rundll, and systray. and havent everyhting I can close closed and it still wount run. so. I would try to run it under dos mode. first off I can figure out how to get into complete dos mode. and second of all I cant make a startup disk. I belive the drive is totally junk and doesnt recognize there is a dick in there. I have tried a number of disks and none of them work. so I need some suggestions please. tia :)

tb525
May 9th, 2003, 11:45 PM
Hi msgoodwrench, Welcome to CTH. Try running defrag in safe mode. To get into safe mode, as the machine is booting tap the F8 key. (right after it does the memory check and detects the drives) continue tapping until a boot menu appears and choose safe mode from that menu.