Defrag. doesn't work

[Vas_Deferens]

A friend of mine's win98 pc won't defrag. We ran scandisk, it detected no errors. When we run defrag, it goes to 2% then back to 0%, then stops. Any remedies for this? Thanks

 

[bsobel]

Thats happening because something is writing to the disk causing Defrag to restart. Kill any background apps that may cause writes while defrag is running and try again.
Bill

 

[Vas_Deferens]

Thanks Bill, we'll try it.

 

[sublime79]

If that doesn't work, try starting the computer in Safe Mode. There is another way that I saw on Tech TV once, but I can't remember it.