DARREN

Please help me i am running XP with a 1.7 gig P4 proccesor.
768 meg of RD ram and 40 gig of hard disc.
A geforce 4200i 128ddr card
The hard drive needs defragmenting every week,my Norton system doctors alarm is set at 75% and keeps telling me this.
Is my hard drive corrupt?????????

Thanks for your advice

Dal

Fosters

have you got a virus checker running or a software firewall?

virus applications (norton/macafee/etc) are the the most intrusive apps and I hate them. then again they're s'posed to be intrusive to keep your machine happy

anyway, stop them and your machine will be happier.

jbryant

Hi

If your hard disk is nearly full then every time you make space or add stuff to your disk you will be placing files onto the system in a defragmented state. Best thing you can do is clear off as much data as you can (a few gigs at least) and then do a full defrag.

Also sounds like Norton is trying to justify itself somewhat. Unless you're noticing a hit in performance and need superfast disk speeds maybe you neen't worry so much and place the defrag threshold higher. I have a 27Gb drive, almost full, and I defrag once every, errrr, 3 months! This is a gaming machine also. Bear in mind once a game is loaded into memory then performance would not be hit.

Or get a bigger HDD

hope this helps
Joolz

[Edited by jbryant - 12/31/2002 8:05:45 AM]

DARREN

Its a 40 gig drive and its only used for gaming realy apart from the net!!!.
I am using only 12 gb of this but i also have installed
Norton anti virus
Norton personal firewall
Norton Utillities
Norton Ghost

Regards

Darren