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Can't Defrag or Check Disk
My brother-in-laws 6 year old Dell Dimension 1.6 GHz, 256 Ram won't run defrag or chkdisk. I tried Microsoft defrag and Auslogics defrag. Both result in the blue death screen that says a physical memory dump is in progress. The same thing happens when I try to run check disk.
It has 58 processes running in the background when booted up. It seems to have about 60 free meg memory at that point. Is this too little to run the above tools? Or does it indicate a bad hard drive?
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Roger1955
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December 18th, 2007 20:00
Have you tried running in safe mode? Also using the original installation disc for Windows XP I presume, booting to the Recovery Console and running Chkdsk from there?
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December 18th, 2007 21:00
If you have a Utilities partition on the hard drive, press F12 before XP starts to load, select that partition and run extended hard drive tests. If you don't have that partition, go here and download Dell's 90/90 hard drive utility. Create a bootable floppy, boot from the floppy and run the 90/90 tests.
http://snipurl.com/1vicd
Note that Windows defrag requires at least 15% free space to run, so you may want to delete all .tmp files, clear the browser cache, and move pix, music etc onto CDs and delete from HD to make some free space.
Ron