I ran across an article by John Barnett (a Windows Vista freelance MVP) about
repairing Vista OS by doing an upgrade install, which preserves your
programs, settings, data, etc. I did this today and my computer is back up
and purring. It does chkdsk and defrag without a hitch.

"brink" wrote:
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> uvbogden;369491 Wrote:[color=green]
> > I have tried to run this from an elevated "administrator" level and it
> > still
> > doesn't work.
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> Ok uvbogden,
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> You might try using this free 3rd party defrag program, Auslogics Disk
> Defrag. It's a great program with a progress graph, and it's faster.
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> 'http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/'
> ([url]http://www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag/[/url])
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> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
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