Just a technical query folks!
I just cleared out a load of junk files from my PC. I decided it was time to defragment my hard drive. The drive is partitioned into three virtual drives. E has new programmes installed to kee them separate from the Windows Operating system. D has data, documents, music, pictures, etc. Drive C is the original partition with Windows ME pre-installed. I used Microsofte Windoze Defrag utility.
Drive E is about 3GB in size and defragged in about 15 minutes.
Drive D is 14 GB and did the job in less than an hour. - then I set it off on C drive....
C Drive is 12GB (smalled than D Drive). 11 HOURS later it finished. I started it at 3.15 in the afternoon and didn't complete the task until nealy Half past Two in the morning.
Every time the programme started to move data around, it would run between 2 seconds and about a maximum of 30 seconds. THEN I would get a message that the data on the drive had changed, and the programme would go back to the very beginning - checking the drive for errors. Once it had done this, it would return to the point it had previously reached, and then continue moving data about. Seconds later the process would repeat itself.
HELP - Does anyone know why it behaves like this?
Is it an artefact of Windows being the most stupid crap computer operating system ever invented, or is there a way I can avoid it next time?
Should I close something down? - I wasn't trying to run any other programmes, but Windows insists on opening a load of stuff I don't use and don't want, in the background, ever time it boots up! Do I need to close these somehow?
Is there something I can disable to make things run smoothly?
Any advice from those of you who know more about Windows would be greatly appreciated.
Quack!
Geoff.