Endless Defrag Optimization is the Objective D. E. Levine
The idea of bringing this PC back to life was to make my own life a bit easier. I didn't mind running Defrag, although experience has taught me that depending upon the size of your drives and the number of files and programs, it can take quite a bit of time to achieve its purpose.
I've never had a problem before and I didn't expect one now. I must have been on an end of summer PC cleanup mission because I Defragged my other, more recently used machines first, and none of them took too long or had any problems.
Whenever you run the Defrag tool, it optimizes the files and programs on your computer. The objective is to speed up access to the files and reduce wear and tear on your hard drive.
The Pentium II in question has a removable SCSI C drive and an internal drive partitioned into drives D and E. I thought I'd let the Defrag tool run during the night while I got some sleep and have a PC with three optimized drives when I awoke.
Imagine my surprise, in the morning, to find that the Defrag tool was still working on Drive C, and it was only on the beginning of that drive.
I sat down to study the problem, looked at the continuing Defrag map for a time. I saw that Defrag appeared to be stuck in an endless loop. My initial thought was that a program was attempting to access the hard drive while Defrag was running and it was causing Defrag to continually restart, never going past a certain point.
