Comments for Why does the defrag program crash on my machine?

Comment from Mike on 2007-12-18

2007-12-18T19:11:07Z

I have a similar problem my comp is basically a gaming comp with duel core and dual graphics cards, after i had to repartition due to a error checking crash the defrag would start get to 25% then just crash suddenly

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Comment from steve on 2007-09-13

2007-09-13T15:49:14Z

The defrag on my computer crashed on my machine several months ago and would also reboot after a few minutes. After reading your article and trying the "chkdsk c: /r" command my computer was totally cured of its ailments. Thank you Leo for your comprehensive help.

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Comment from Dave on 2007-05-30

2007-05-31T06:07:57Z

My system started shutting down when running defrag (no reboot). Later it shut down when Spybot was running. I checked out the CPU Usage via the Task Manager and found Spybot was utilizing the CPU at 100%. Checked out Defrag and found a similar situation. Hmm, I built this computer about 2 years ago and haven't cleaned it up. When I opened it up it was cruddy. I cleaned it up and restarted the system and no shutdown problems anymore.

Hope this helps and causes others to clean up their computers.

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Comment from chris cafferata on 2007-05-30

2007-05-30T14:28:20Z

Had the same issues some time ago. I suggest running defrag in 'safe mode' or, as was my cure, disable the antivrus software. Thanks.

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Comment from Clive on 2007-05-29

2007-05-29T17:22:27Z

Sometimes that reboot at the 10% level is because of something running in the background -- anti virus, etc. Boot into Safe Mode and then run the defrag program. It should run just fine then.

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Comment from Ken Power on 2007-05-27

2007-05-27T23:32:23Z

I had a somewhat similar problem some time ago, and it turned out to be something as simple as a screensaver or other software configured to activate automatically.
It was too far back for me to remember details, but ensuring that nothing could activate the drive whist defrag was functioning did stop it from continually restarting before completion, and occasionally crashing.
It also helped when I installed "Diskeeper", which takes care of defrag automatically, and works so much faster than the built in MS service.

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Comment from VIC on 2007-05-25

2007-05-26T04:35:55Z

After turning off everything that comes on automatically or timered, screensaver was the ultimate culprit.

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Comment from David on 2007-05-25

2007-05-26T02:35:52Z

Leo,
Doesn't "defrag" require a certain amount of free space to run...possibly that could be the problem? Altho I guess you'd get an error for that, I'm not sure. Just a suggestion.

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Comment from Len on 2007-05-25

2007-05-26T02:18:19Z

I had the same problem when I was using Windows ME. Defrag would go to only 10% and bounce back to zero and start over. Again at 10%, back to zero again. I don't remember who, but some computer tech. like yourself told me that the programs running in the background were part, if not all of my problem. He said to turn off everything I could and try again. It worked fine and everytime after I would automatically turn things off and had no more problems. I don't know if it is any help but it worked for me.

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