You need to turn everything off to defrag on a Win98 system.
EG Anti-virus programs, disable any firewall, (but disconnect from the internet first), and more importantly, disable the screensaver.
Mark
I have an HP pavilion that is about 6 years old. It came with a 10GB hard drive that recently did a belly flop. I bought an 80GB harddrive and had it installed and everything works great until I tried using defrag. It will run for a couple of minutes and then start over. Any ideas. Also can someone recommend a good tutorial for partitioning my hard drive. Win 98se IE 6sp1 256mb of ram. Thanks alot, John

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