For some reason I cannot use Norton Speed Disk on my laptop. It used to work
fine but now it seems to get stuck.

I have a Sony VAIO notebook running Windows Me, and a hard drive of 10 Gb that
is partitioned in two drives, a C drive of about 4 Gb containing the operating
system and program files and a D drive of about 6 Gb containing data files. The
C drive contains about 2.5 Gb of data.

When I try to defragment this drive a certain sequence occurs: Speed disk is
first "optimizing folders", then does some "sorting" and finally goes on to the
task of "optimizing". At first all seems to go fine, but then at some point the
program gets stuck by just endlessly repeating the first two phases of
"optimizing folders" and "sorting". This can go on for hours, but often the
program just crashes and shuts down.

I've tried to defragment in safe mode but Speed Disk won't run in this mode.
I've checked disk integrity and all but cannot find anything wrong. Does anyone
know what may be causing this behavior and how I can correct it?

Thanks, Paul

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Re: Problems with Norton Speed Disk by oops!!

oops!!
Tue Jan 27 17:52:28 CST 2004

Paul,

Get the free ScanDefrag. It is the most advanced disk maintenance
program there is. It runs Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and Disk
Defragmenter. It's easy to setup and use, and it can deal with
problems like "drive's contents have changed: restarting...".
Get it and read about all the options it has that you can use.
http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2/scandefrag/main.htm
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

Zee

P.S.: You can configure ScanDefrag to use Norton Speed Disk.
Give it a try it really is good.



"Paul Voogt" <pjvoogtATfreelerDOTnl> wrote in message
news:jmtd10psvo1grc9qhc7eail4eb5auhv8us@4ax.com...
> For some reason I cannot use Norton Speed Disk on my laptop. It used to
work
> fine but now it seems to get stuck.
>
> I have a Sony VAIO notebook running Windows Me, and a hard drive of 10 Gb
that
> is partitioned in two drives, a C drive of about 4 Gb containing the
operating
> system and program files and a D drive of about 6 Gb containing data
files. The
> C drive contains about 2.5 Gb of data.
>
> When I try to defragment this drive a certain sequence occurs: Speed disk
is
> first "optimizing folders", then does some "sorting" and finally goes on
to the
> task of "optimizing". At first all seems to go fine, but then at some
point the
> program gets stuck by just endlessly repeating the first two phases of
> "optimizing folders" and "sorting". This can go on for hours, but often
the
> program just crashes and shuts down.
>
> I've tried to defragment in safe mode but Speed Disk won't run in this
mode.
> I've checked disk integrity and all but cannot find anything wrong. Does
anyone
> know what may be causing this behavior and how I can correct it?
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> --
> This is my tagline; make me an offer and it's yours!



Re: Problems with Norton Speed Disk by Paul

Paul
Sat Jan 31 06:04:25 CST 2004

Zee,

Thank you for your response. I've downloaded ScanDefrag and now Speed Disk works
flawlessly..

Paul


On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:52:28 -0000, "oops!!" <notme@nowhere.com> wrote:

>Paul,
>
>Get the free ScanDefrag. It is the most advanced disk maintenance
>program there is. It runs Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and Disk
>Defragmenter. It's easy to setup and use, and it can deal with
>problems like "drive's contents have changed: restarting...".
>Get it and read about all the options it has that you can use.
>http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2/scandefrag/main.htm
>http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html
>
>Zee
>
>P.S.: You can configure ScanDefrag to use Norton Speed Disk.
>Give it a try it really is good.
>
>
>
>"Paul Voogt" <pjvoogtATfreelerDOTnl> wrote in message
>news:jmtd10psvo1grc9qhc7eail4eb5auhv8us@4ax.com...
>> For some reason I cannot use Norton Speed Disk on my laptop. It used to
>work
>> fine but now it seems to get stuck.
>>
>> I have a Sony VAIO notebook running Windows Me, and a hard drive of 10 Gb
>that
>> is partitioned in two drives, a C drive of about 4 Gb containing the
>operating
>> system and program files and a D drive of about 6 Gb containing data
>files. The
>> C drive contains about 2.5 Gb of data.
>>
>> When I try to defragment this drive a certain sequence occurs: Speed disk
>is
>> first "optimizing folders", then does some "sorting" and finally goes on
>to the
>> task of "optimizing". At first all seems to go fine, but then at some
>point the
>> program gets stuck by just endlessly repeating the first two phases of
>> "optimizing folders" and "sorting". This can go on for hours, but often
>the
>> program just crashes and shuts down.
>>
>> I've tried to defragment in safe mode but Speed Disk won't run in this
>mode.
>> I've checked disk integrity and all but cannot find anything wrong. Does
>anyone
>> know what may be causing this behavior and how I can correct it?
>>
>> Thanks, Paul
>>
>> --
>> This is my tagline; make me an offer and it's yours!
>

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Re: Problems with Norton Speed Disk by oops!!

oops!!
Sat Jan 31 09:15:51 CST 2004

Paul,

You're welcome.

Glad you like ScanDefrag too.

Zee


"Paul Voogt" <pjvoogtREMOVE@freeler.nl> wrote in message
news:586n101ehjo2qeh81go2o5nsg85otlhh7h@4ax.com...
> Zee,
>
> Thank you for your response. I've downloaded ScanDefrag and now Speed Disk
works
> flawlessly..
>
> Paul
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:52:28 -0000, "oops!!" <notme@nowhere.com> wrote:
>
> >Paul,
> >
> >Get the free ScanDefrag. It is the most advanced disk maintenance
> >program there is. It runs Disk Cleanup, ScanDisk, and Disk
> >Defragmenter. It's easy to setup and use, and it can deal with
> >problems like "drive's contents have changed: restarting...".
> >Get it and read about all the options it has that you can use.
> >http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2/scandefrag/main.htm
> >http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html
> >
> >Zee
> >
> >P.S.: You can configure ScanDefrag to use Norton Speed Disk.
> >Give it a try it really is good.
> >
> >
> >
> >"Paul Voogt" <pjvoogtATfreelerDOTnl> wrote in message
> >news:jmtd10psvo1grc9qhc7eail4eb5auhv8us@4ax.com...
> >> For some reason I cannot use Norton Speed Disk on my laptop. It used to
> >work
> >> fine but now it seems to get stuck.
> >>
> >> I have a Sony VAIO notebook running Windows Me, and a hard drive of 10
Gb
> >that
> >> is partitioned in two drives, a C drive of about 4 Gb containing the
> >operating
> >> system and program files and a D drive of about 6 Gb containing data
> >files. The
> >> C drive contains about 2.5 Gb of data.
> >>
> >> When I try to defragment this drive a certain sequence occurs: Speed
disk
> >is
> >> first "optimizing folders", then does some "sorting" and finally goes
on
> >to the
> >> task of "optimizing". At first all seems to go fine, but then at some
> >point the
> >> program gets stuck by just endlessly repeating the first two phases of
> >> "optimizing folders" and "sorting". This can go on for hours, but often
> >the
> >> program just crashes and shuts down.
> >>
> >> I've tried to defragment in safe mode but Speed Disk won't run in this
> >mode.
> >> I've checked disk integrity and all but cannot find anything wrong.
Does
> >anyone
> >> know what may be causing this behavior and how I can correct it?
> >>
> >> Thanks, Paul
> >>
> >> --
> >> This is my tagline; make me an offer and it's yours!
> >
>
> Want to email me? REMOVE this