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I'm trying out OneCare as an alternative to Norton and AVG in that order but w/ Vista Home Preimum on new HDs. I have 2 harddrive masters on different channels. The 1st HD has C: partition as the partition w/ OS and programs. E: is used for data. On the second HD the Paging File (fat32) is the F: partition. G: is for backups. OneCare reports an unknown error has prevented Windows from performing this task. Try Tune up again. The drive it doesn't defrag is the C: drive and it degrags OK running the Command Prompt as an administrator using defrag C: Processor- Intel DuoCPU 2.33ghz 2.33ghz. Anybody have any idea what problem OneCare is having?
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Try running chkdsk on the C:\ drive, then run tune up. If the issue persists please contact suppor. How to reach support - http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onecareinstallandactivate/thread/30400b52-7f26-4ba0-bc18-17e305329d90
Jim - MVP Windows Live - Forum Moderator - Live One Care - Live Mesh- Marked as answer by Stephen BootsMVP, Moderator Monday, May 11, 2009 12:25 PM
Monday, May 11, 2009 5:12 AMModerator
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Try running chkdsk on the C:\ drive, then run tune up. If the issue persists please contact suppor. How to reach support - http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/onecareinstallandactivate/thread/30400b52-7f26-4ba0-bc18-17e305329d90
Jim - MVP Windows Live - Forum Moderator - Live One Care - Live Mesh- Marked as answer by Stephen BootsMVP, Moderator Monday, May 11, 2009 12:25 PM
Monday, May 11, 2009 5:12 AMModerator -
I didn't run chkdsk, I did this (as I indicated) "defrags OK running the Command Prompt as an administrator using defrag C: " and now it it seems to be OK.
As I said, I'm trying out OneCare as an alternative to Norton and AVG, but now I'm wondering if that's a good thing either.
I've spent so much time administrating in the last 6 weeks, I beginning to think that the computer experience is more about keeping Windows alive
that the things I purchased my computers for in the first place.
Defrag (thru OneCare) finished defraging drive C: with 0-1% defragmentation in 15 minutes more or less.
If it hadn't have taken off and finished before I read your suggestion, I would have tried yours.
Thanks for the idea/alternative Stephen,
I wiill still try that.
OneCare reports "Because of the high level of defragmentation, Vol C: could not be completed."
0-1% reported by Command line defragmentstion. E,F,G done.
JimMonday, May 11, 2009 11:07 PM -
Same thing happened after I ran it after logging chkdsk /f at the run line.
I didn't see chkdsk run but it should have scheduled a dos run before startup.
In any case the problem is the same as before with OneCare.
Only it is stated this way, verbatum,
"*Because of the high levels of disk fragmentation, starred volumes could not be completed in this Tune-up and are marked for defragmentation in later Tune-ups."
Command line defrag reports 0-1% fragmentation on the C: drive.Tuesday, May 12, 2009 1:08 AM -
The original reply was from JimR. :-)
Ignore the report from OneCare tune-up, it is simply due to the way that OneCare executes the Defrag for a limited time without actually checking if the disk is fragmented.
It's a stupid report item that really should have been removed long ago.
-steve
Microsoft MVP Windows Live / Windows Live OneCare & Live Mesh Forum ModeratorTuesday, May 12, 2009 2:24 PMModerator