re: Defragmenting my "C" drive, causes error
Sunday, January 10, 2010 at 7:35 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by elmoticky
(134 messages posted)
Ed thank you again for the advise. After letting the
defraging run all night on Safe Mode I found it this
morning, again with two layers of Kernel errors and
when I clicked both close, the completed task was at
4%. A whole week I have spent on this and nothing
seems as if it is going to work -- and for what? I ask
myself. I know your answer has to be: "well you want
to do it!"
Reading your new sound advise seems like a novel
approach. What I am going to do is wait for my Son
to stop by after work tomorrow. He is the computer
savvy guy here. He solved my missing "D" drive when I was trying to remove a ton
of pictures from
my PC. It turned out that I have no "D"drive but have
a zip drive that works as the "D" drive. So I will get
back to you on what he says about this new novel
approach. Thanks again Ed.
On Saturday, January 9, 2010 at 10:47 pm, Ed wrote:
>One thing I forgot to mention. Defrag.exe is in origin a DOS-based program, and
so
>it will fail to complete (exhibiting the symptoms you've mentioned) if it encounters
>the notorious DOS "directory limit".
>
>DOS could only read a file if it was not more than 8 levels "deep". Defrag has the
>same limitation, because it is running on DOS fundamentally. DOS still can't read
>such a file, not even in the version of DOS that ships with Windows ME.
>
>But Windows doesn't have that limitation. So it's perfectly possible you've created
>more than 8 levels of subdirectories using Windows. The only time that will ever
>be a problem is in running the Defrag program, because Windows was built to overcome
>that particular drawback of DOS. In technical terms, the "path" (to the file) is
>too long for DOS to read.
>
>Therefore, you should check to see whether your hard disk has any files in a sub-directory
>that is more than 8 levels below the C: root directory.
>
>The (very easy) solution is to simply move them, using Windows, to a higher level
>directory. Make sure you get them all, because you may have inadvertantly done this
>with lots of files. I know I did!
>
>By the way, I strongly recommend that you only run Defrag after running ScanDisk
>for Windows in thorough mode and also ScanDisk for DOS (and run the latter
>in pure DOS mode, using the Windows ME "Emergency Boot Disk" floppy).
>
>Ed
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