Re: Defrag and chkdsk problem together

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

Reboot the computer. Allow chkdsk to run. Reboot again. Run the
defragmenting program.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from: George Ankner
"If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"

"Tammie Busch" <TammieBusch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:401CDA0A-4F65-4504-A717-551B005AE77C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have been trying to help my friend with his computer. I did check disk
>on
> it and it went fine. I went to do defrag and it says that "disk
> defragmenter
> has detected that chkdsk is scheduled to run on Volume; (C:) please run
> chkdsk /f."
> Have checked Scheduled Tasks and checkdisk is not listed on schedule.
> How can I get defrag to run and get checkdisk to let defrag to run?
> --
> Sincerely, Tammie Busch
> http://www.fullofjoyenterprises.com
> http://thedollarbusch.mydollarshop.com
>


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