Computer advice

Hey, compopulator's, I can't defragment my hard drive. When I go to analyze or defragment drive C I get a warning pop up. It says "Disk defragmenter has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (C:). Please run Chkdsk /f. " So what does that all mean???? Thx.

Konradr

Go to start, run, and then run what it tells you to. DO WHAT THE MACHINE WANTS! -hides- Respect it!

No really, its probably just a bug, but if you run that it will check your disk for errors, which is always a good thing.

I went to start, run and ran what it said and nothing happend. Not sure what to do to change it, I'm sure its a bug or something. Can't remember last time I defragmented the drive.

Konradr

Hmm I can't really troubleshoot it without bein there... copy and paste whatever message it gives you, and paste it into google.

Konradr, you probably just need to open the command shell (type cmd at a run prompt), then type

Code:

chkdsk /f c:

It should tell you the drive is in use, do you want to schedule it on the next reboot. Say yes and then reboot. It should spend a while on a blue screen counting numbers before it loads back into windows. Then you should be able to defrag.

If it still won't defrag the most common problems are 1) some program is actively moving things around and it keeps restarting the defrag or 2) the drive is too full and won't defrag. Good luck, I hope that helps.

Isk wrote:

Konradr, you probably just need to open the command shell (type cmd at a run prompt), then type

Code:

chkdsk /f c:

It should tell you the drive is in use, do you want to schedule it on the next reboot. Say yes and then reboot. It should spend a while on a blue screen counting numbers before it loads back into windows. Then you should be able to defrag.

If it still won't defrag the most common problems are 1) some program is actively moving things around and it keeps restarting the defrag or 2) the drive is too full and won't defrag. Good luck, I hope that helps.

^ Yeah that should fix it. -hasn't been on Windows in a few weeks- you have to run it in the cmd prompt DX my bad.

Thx Isk and Phoxly, the cmd thing got it going but like you said, not enough room on the disk to defragment so I will have to get rid of some stuff and buy some CDR's to save alot of video and pics I have on the disks. I think the kids load up on Songs too, I'll have to go on their sections and do a little gutting. Wish I could afford an external hard drive for storage. I've got CDR's coming out my butt.

Thx again.

Konradrb

Yeah, external hard drive is the way to go, but they aren't free. Maybe we can get congress to offer a hard drive stimulus for overloaded computers

Isk wrote:

Yeah, external hard drive is the way to go, but they aren't free. Maybe we can get congress to offer a hard drive stimulus for overloaded computers

Epic idea. I have a 250G passport model I think is what they are called.

Konrad if you need to store some video or what not on it when I get down you can.

You usually will need to also delete out older files... like cookies and such.


I recommend you use this Program called Ccleaner. (www.ccleaner.com)

This will clean out old internet files and it cleans out the computers registry as well.


If you need a little bit more help just ask.


Cya saturday.