Defrag could not initialize

This is my first post here, so forgive me if i don't include all the necessary details... I am trying to defrag my FAT32 hard drive. I have never had any problems with this before, but now I am getting a messege that reads "Disk defragmenter could not initialize" when I use win 2ks defrager. When I use Norton's Speed Disk, it tells me that "Speed disk is unable to access drive C: Please check to see if another application has the drive locked ". What do I do to fix this?

 

Welcome to the Best, the Windows BBS.

Do this!

Configure CleanMgr to max settings
Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sageset:1
The above need only be ran once (these settings will be remembered as the default until another sageset is ran).

It will present a menu select all except compress, then

Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sagerun:1
As long as /sageset above has been ran on this computer from now on the /sagerun is the only thing that needs to run.

Then d/l and run the below:

http://www.webattack.com/get/xpantispy.shtml

Select everything except these 4 items.

1. Don’t show balloon tips
2. Enable fast shutdown
3. Increase MaxConnectionsperServer to 10
4. Disable Task Scheduler service

After the first reboot after you run XPAntiSpy go back to XpAntiSpy and uncheck the clear Pagefile at shutdown, as we only want to clear it once.

but before reboot do the below

Start run

type

chkdsk /r

It will tell you to let it run on next boot. Please do so.

Then reboot to let it do this!

Do the same for any other partitions.

Then reboot once again and hit F8 key while progress bar is at bottom of screen to chose safe mode.

Now defrag. In safe mode will take a little longer.

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mike