My defragger starts and stops,

[catmandu57]

then starts and stops over and over. I turned off all the programs ran a scan disc then tried a defrag. I recently loaded my os into a new computer is there a setting I need to adjust somewhere?
I downloaded a defragger to do the job, but I'd like to know what's going on here.

[Angry Girl]

1. Are you running it in Safe Mode?

Try booting up in Safe boot and running your defrag there. To get to Safe Mode, repeatedly hit the F8 key as soon as your PC starts to boot up and follow the menus.

Also make sure your antivirus is disabled.

[landdaddy]

2. What Angry Girl said!...........eom

[catmandu57]

3. okay

I'll do that thanks.

[Ouabache]

4. turn off any screensavers too

especially if you are defragging any big hard drives with lots of stuff.
i think it helps that phenomena you describe.

[Deja Q]

5. Check for spyware, adware, virii, and trojans (not the good kind)

Something is running in the background that updates a data file of some sort, forcing defrag to start all over again.

[Ouabache]

6. oh yeah, pause the Task Scheduler on the task bar too

that might help. You might have something trying to schedule itself.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. Just make sure there is nothing running in the background. And

run the Error Checker before you Defrag. Again the best thing is to run it in Safe Mode.

[Wickerman]

8. There is a wonderful fre-ware program called EndItAll

that will shut down everything that isn't essential. I use it for defragging and burning DVDs.

http://www.docsdownloads.com/Tier1/enditall.htm