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Defragment on Win98SE?
When watching a Detailed List I see some squares that are white with a small red box top right. What is this? Bad Sectors on the Hard Drive or System Stuff that not moved? I have always wanted to know as they stay in their place.
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Stuff that has not moved. Defrag does not show cluster status, only occupancy.
The red clusters are typically the ones used by virtual memory (page file). To defrag completely, if you have atleast 128MB RAM, you can turn off virtual memory completely, restart windows and the defrag. After defragmentation, remember to enable virtual memory again.
You can turn off virtual memory in System Properties (Winkey+Pause/Break).
- dewcoonsLv 71 decade ago
The answers are correct. Those are sectors being used by Windows at the time you are defraging, so they can not be moved. They also do not need to be moved. They are temporary files that will go away when you shut down. So just ignore them. They are harmless.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
why dont you try to cleck on "advanced" button, you may find explanations of those each colorc
