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    Wolfmight's Avatar Poster BT Rep: +1
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    My computer really needs one badly, but perfect disk cant do it.
    Any other program that will?

    I also ran Checkdisk during Windows startup about 15 times.
    I need to force it to do this, No Bull @#$%* messin up like Perfect Disk (latest version) does.

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    umm... defrag program. Norton Utilities comes with one called speed disk.

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    Wolfmight's Avatar Poster BT Rep: +1
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    i dont trust speedisk.. It caused major problems in windows 98.. on mine and my friend's computer. New version might be better, but still.

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    Why did you run checkdisk 15 times? Was it able to complete and was the disk ok?

    You would have to get though the checkdisk before you can defragment it.

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    When ever I start having a lot of problem i take the easy way out and just reformat. Gets the job done.

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    Norton has always worked well on my xp machine

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    Diskeeper will do an offline bootfiles/pagefile/MTF defrag.
    "I am the one who knocks."- Heisenberg

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    someone told me u gatta run scandisk a few times sometimes for Perfect Disk's boot/offline defrag to work.
    Yes, that sort of helps, but when Perfect disk actually starts it justs says Perfect Disk failed to boot/offline defrag or something... i restart.. then perfect disk boot/offline defrag shows a working startup progress for 3-4 secs.. then windows loads up... While perfect disk did NOTHING. I goto the Perfect Disk program itself and it says C:\ Still needs a boot/offline defrag and shows fragments and stuff. Smartplace defrag doesnt get to the deep stuff.

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    I think you should uninstall perfect disk and try to reinstall it . You might have a bad copy. mine works great. Pm me and I can send it to you...

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    Originally posted by clocker@7 September 2003 - 19:09
    Diskeeper will do an offline bootfiles/pagefile/MTF defrag.
    ah that works.
    Thanks.

    Perfect Disk also said it didnt need a Boot/Offline defrag n e more.
    Guess I'll use both programs.

    Diskeeper for Boot/Offline Defrag & Defraging
    Perfect Disk for Smart Placement Defrag which organizes files by usage.

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