Can't defrag C: drive.....
Posted: 12/10/2006 7:03:22 AM
Its WinXP SP2. There is a very high amount of fragmentation on C: drive. When I try to defrag with Windows defragger or a third party defragger, it says that it cannot, as there errors on the drive. It says that a scan is scheduled for the next time Windows reboots. However, when I reboot Windows, scandisk does NOT run.
So I tried to go into safe mode to command prompt and manually run scandisk. Well, I can no longer get into safe mode! The system files load normally until it loads MUP.SYS. Then the message "press escape to cancel loading D347BUS.SYS" pops up. Whether or not I press escape, it never goes any farther in loading process. The hard drive light just flashes almost continuous without ever going on. MUP.SYS is as far as it goes. I also tried selecting safe mode rather than safe mode w/command prompt, but that gives the same results. Next I tried booting up from the XP CDROM into repair console. I think this should have taken it to a command prompt. Went OK until it asked which OS I wanted to boot (there was only one listed)--- and when I pressed enter, it immediately rebooted the PC.
Until I can get into a DOS mode outside of Windows, I will not be able to repair the errors on the C: partition. Am out of ideas.
Is the only solution a repair-install of Windows? Geronimo
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