Re: Disk Defragmenter

Hi,

Click start/run, or type winkey+r to open a run dialog. Type CMD and click ok. From the prompt, run chkntfs /d to clear the dirty bit.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Ian" <Ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:EE09B243-A00C-46CB-96E8-EE9FE75578A4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
when trying to run defreg on c drive i get a message saying that Chkdsk is
scheduled to run on the drive, BUT no schedule is set for defrag (in
scheduled tasks), but i can defrag the other drive (F) with no problems.

how do i turn off the schedule run???


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