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To: E who wrote (18910)	4/18/2001 10:47:38 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110598

E I don't have a clue...sounds like you did everything right. Even a thorough NDD should not take that amount of time. You don't by any chance have an 80+ gig hard drive do you? Have you uninstalled norton...if not maybe an uninstall-reinstall will help. I'm out of ideas. tc :-(

To: E who wrote (18910)	4/18/2001 11:49:11 PM
From: hcm1943	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110598

E I don't know if this will help but it cant hurt pcpitstop.com

To: E who wrote (18910)	4/19/2001 1:42:48 PM
From: mr.mark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110598

hi e choosing normal would have been much faster than thorough, but tell you something you don't already know, huh? it occurs to me that you are trying to run the windoze defrag while having norton installed. why are you not trying to run norton? i have seen instances of norton's presence being enough to lock the disk so that the windoze tools could not run. i have also seen where this effect did not occur. perhaps you will benefit from sticking with the norton defrag tool (speed disk) instead of going back and forth from the windoze tool to norton. in reading through the posts, i see that you are about to reinstall winme. very ambitious undertaking, and i trust ed to provide you with valid advice. if your disk locking dilemma does not get resolved by the winme reinstall, i recommend re-running ndd in DOS (making sure to select the faster 'normal' mode this time), then following through with running norton speed disk, not windoze defrag. good luck :) mark

To: E who wrote (18910)	4/19/2001 2:12:21 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110598

hi again e i wanted to add that i also think tc's suggestion to uninstall/reinstall norton systemworks is quite valid. if you've ever posted to any of the symantec message boards (a viable option for you, btw), you'd know that their tech support personnel are into suggesting that users uninstall/reinstall the product. thinking back now to all of the times it was suggested to me, i always felt like they were over-recommending the procedure. but having come so far (or perhaps i should say, having tried so much), it is by no means premature to suggest that you opt for the uninstall/reinstall routine. i will stick with my rec that you try running ndd in DOS one more time, then reboot into windoze and run speed disk. if that, and the win me reinstall, do not unlock your disk, then go for the removing and replacing systemworks. you have become quite the thread project, now supplanting mag's legendary crash test dummy chronicles.... hope this helps :) mark