My main home PC (running Win98 SE) has been having problems for a couple of months now, freezing up for no apparent reason. Sometimes quick, sometimes not. I've been figuring it's time for a Windows reinstall, so today, while cleaning the basement, I decided to kick it off. I wouldn't have to check back but every so often, and I wouldn't have to use any of my prime gaming time for PC maintenance.
So I kick off a reinstall... and 45 minutes later, the system is hung with a red "X" box. Restart, and it puts the registry back the way it found it. Hmmm... I thought that's what I was trying to fix...
Take another look, and my C: drive is 95% full! A 20GB drive, and I've got less than 45MB free! No idea where it's all gone to, but I moved one large data directory to another drive and freed up 5GB of space. Finishing up a defrag, and I should find out within the next couple of days whether it was just a space problem... :thumbtwiddle:
Side question: other folks, like Willow, have mentioned preferred defrag alternatives. I'm going to look through the archives, but if anyone has one of those at the tip of their tongues, please feel free to pass it along.
Ah, the life of the guy who supposedly knows something about computers...
