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From: bob gillis <>
Subject: Re: [TMG]Defrag hard drive
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 17:38:26 -0400
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Evelyn, I defrag my 8.4 GB drive in about an hour. Before starting
defrag turn off all open programs, turn off screen savers and power
saver. Every time a program does something automatically, defrag sees
the change and starts all over again. Even with the above turned off,
it may take a couple of passes to do it.

bob gillis

Evelyn Hendricks wrote:
>
> How long is it supposed to take to defragment an 9.2 GB hard drive? I have
> defraged mine before, but it had been quite a while since I did it. I
> started it about 6 o'clock last evening. At 2:30 in the morning it was
> still at it. It would get to about 20 %, then send a message that the drive
> had changed, read the file again and start over. It did this at about 10%
> to 20% increments until it had finished. I don't remember it doing it that
> way before. Also, I have never had a scan disk to complete on this computer.
> I have a Dell Dimension V400, running Windows 98 (4.10) with 48 % of my
> resources free. I have 384 M of ram.
> Is something wrong with my computer or is this normal behavior?
> Evelyn Hendricks
>
> At 07:36 PM 06/07/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >Try defragging your hard drive. I find that things sometimes "get
> >separated" and the program can't find all of the bits & pieces to patch it
> >back together into a unified whole. (Hey, I know this "ain't"
> >techno-babble, but . . . .)
> >
> >CheriC
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
> >Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 7:21 PM
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: [TMG] Help please! Dates missing
> >
> >
> >MIWyett wrote:
> > >I sent this email earlier in the week and got only one response.
> > >(Consequently I ran VFI) I hope more people might see and have a
> > >suggestion this weekend. I leave for a trip in two weeks!!
> >
> >It may be quicker to contact Tech Support on this.
> >
> >---clipped-
> > >At the beginning of the year I installed Symantec ACT! My computer went
> > >crazy. I clicked my TMG 4 icon to open the program, but ACT opened
> > >instead of TMG. I uninstalled ACT the same day.. I don't know if this
> > >is the moment of corruption or only an icon issue. Thanks for your help.
> >
> >When you installed ACT!, was there anything else running on your
> >computer? The problem may be a result of that and/or possibly a memory
> >problem (either hardware or possibly a program hiccup or a combination). A
> >number of years ago, I installed MS/Word on a computer of mine and had
> >weird problems. I un-installed Word and the problems went away. I didn't
> >have time to re-install at the time so I don't know what happened. Later I
> >did re-install Word and had no problems.
> >
> >
> >Lee Hoffman/KY
> >TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
> >My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
> >A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)
> >
> >
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