is windows 98 defrag messed up?

i defraged dear hal today, about three times. because if the legend is right defrag is just doing the beginning of the drive. i have lots of blue(thats blue-green)but no green or black (the middle and end of the drive). i have seen the green and the black, but the last couple of times just that blue-green for the beginning. the last time defrag stopped about four inches from a whole block of those little squares with the red apostrophe and said he was finished and did i want to quit! okay the way i defrag is this i shut down the cable internet, pull the cable from the modem (so i will remember that it is offline) i empty recycle bin, turn off screensaver,shut everything i can(only thing left on is volumn control,ati, smc(ethernet card) i double click on my computer,right click on c(hard drive) properties---clean disk, go to tools
scan disk (always and always thorough) then i defrag. so what am i doing wrong? one of the many times we uninstalled windows and re-installed it we also did a partition on the "c" drive. i dont understand this does that (the partitioning have anything to do with defrag acting like it is doing??

 

Hi jan
If your drive is partitioned it should be split into two (or more) parts.
Open Explorer. It should show a 'D' drive - this being a partition - with your CD drive being shown as 'E' .
When you defrag the C drive you are only defragging part of hal's hard drive.

Hope you find something interesting on the D drive.

 

oh boy i ran a find (you know the browse) i have a c and a c:\ each have 10000 files and find doesnt like it too much. it was partitioned the first of the year okay i'll run scan disk and defrag on c:\ and see what happens but find is the onely place i find this c:\ thanks

 

i ran power defragger, it looks as if i only have the beginning of the drive,there is no middle,no end! i check d: first it said that it wasnt ready,so i put in a cd (a music cd,didnt want to put in windows 98 (should i?) it played jimmi henrixfirst it gave me the info about the cd. where is the rest of my hard disk. see i remember that one of the many times i called the manufacturer we did an fdisk,(that is used to partition disk,correct?) but when i called and asked them about it the tech guy said we didnt do it. nevermind how do i find the rest of my hard drive,or in just in case fdisk didnt partition it why isnt power defragger picking up a middle or an end of the hard disk. i have an old computer (6 yrs) intel pent.II the o/s is windows 98 1st that has been uninstalled clean installed, reinstalled, f diskedit seems like every two weeks. i have adaware,spybot with everything except for colorblindess, spywareblaster,spyware guard, stinger, av personal, zone alarm with anti-virus and yahoo's anti spy. i run those things each day,i clean,scan,and defrag weekly. but maybe not to the entire hard drive.i have had so much trouble with this poor ole computer,and maybe thats why. because im not doing the entire c drive! so how can i tell if the drive is partitioned and how in the world do i find it???

 

How can you tell the partition is there? I can tell by the fact you are booting up windows that it is there, else you would get a 'non-system disk' message when trying to boot the computer.
You have a Primary Partition, and it is your C: drive.