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After Defrag PC HDD light on constantly and runs sluggish

by dime21 Jul 16, 2007 11:51AM PDT

After defagmenting my hard drive via Win ME, the system is running very sluggishly and the hard drive "working" light is on non-stop. What went wrong and can I fix it?

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Try...

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Jul 16, 2007 12:21PM PDT

1. Reboot.
2. Turn off any INDEXING program.

Bob

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what is an indexing program? How would I identify it in

by dime21 Jul 16, 2007 12:52PM PDT

start up or running programs?

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try this

by AmericanTexan9999 Jul 18, 2007 1:50PM PDT

do a defrag again

maybe sumthing just got "unsettled" from some freak accident the computer made and needs to be "resettled"

like when a jiffy lube (true story) changes the oil in your car and for some strange reason caused your car has the check oil light on all the time and makes that annoying ding sound all because the oil the service center was using was old oil...(how did they do that? never went there agian...)

all you have to do is change the oil again (at a diff place) and everything's better

or in your case defrag the HD

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