When I try and defrag my drive.......
 

.....I keep getting the message 'drives content changed, restarting'

I close down all programs, can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

youve got damaged clusters somewhere
try scandisk, but you may just be screwed


edit: ignore what i just said, im not awake






youve got something writing to the drive, run msconfig, clean up your start up processes and check for viruses

Thanks Jimthefiend,

I did run msconfig and disabled everything in my start menu but it didn't help. Perhaps your right about the virus, there may be one there that is being missed??

something is writing to the drive most likely
i guess it could be spyware too, check that
you might run scandisk anyway,

OK, spyware.....what's the best way to get rid of that??

Try Spybot

format /c: [enter]

make sure everything is shut down, and don't presume that because yuou don't see anything on, it is all off.

hit control/alt/delete and make sure all that is on is explorer (not Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer - they are 2 different things), and defrag

Also, make sure your screensaver is turned off.

My first question is how big of a hard drive do you have, and how much space do you have available on it? If you don't have enough room to move the files around, it could be impossible to defrag . . .. what OS are you running? 98?

Ok Thanks jovigirl

I'm a bit confused almighty, can you expand on your format/c enter?

Got the same prob.. did everythign to make sure nothing is running

even did scandick in safe mode and still would get scandick has restared over 10times.. etc.. etc..

so just said fuck it.. i'll live with it. Tried to check for a prog that can do it. a non microsoft scandisk. but no luck

anyone have any ideas??

YOU have damaged clusters

every drive reserves some space at the end to be used to replace damaged areas on the drive, on older drives sometimes you simply run out of that reserve space and scandisk cant allocate new areas to put shit on.


when that happens its time for a new drive

SUCCESS!!

Thanks for everyone's input.

maddog had the answer though.

I hit ctrl/alt/delete and closed down everything one by one (except explorer) and it worked fine.

Thanks everybody! :thumbsup

an easier way to do this is press and hold the "Ctrl" button at startup, you'll be given the option to boot up in "Safe Mode", which bypasses every single non-critical application. From Safe Mode you should be able to run it with no problem.