[gui-talk] Windows XP Home Defrag doesn't see my A: drive

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi,

I posted this same question to the Windows Blind Programming list, days 
ago,but no one has responded.

The subject line says it all.  I'm running Win XP Home with SP 2, and I've 
never used the defragger under system tools before with this copy of 
Windows.  I'm familiar with the same utility going back to Win 98, but this 
isn't working the same way.

It used to be that if I invoked Defrag, I'd get a dialogue window that 
would, among other things, allow me to choose whether I wanted to run it on 
my hard drive or on my floppy drive.  And, as it happens, what I'd like to 
do is tidy up a diskette I use for backing up certain files as I work, so 
that the drive doesn't have to spin so much just to put each file and 
subfolder together every time I initially access it, or the first time I 
copy something to one of the two sugbfolders.  By the way, saying that may 
make the diskette sound crowded, but it's not.  I clean out unnecessary 
files from time to time, so there's plenty of room left on it).

But here, when I launch Defrag, the window in the dialogue announces itself 
as a list view, just as the old one did, but Jaws says there's only one item 
in there, my C: drive.    I tried making sure that the A: drive was selected 
in Windows Explorer when I launched, but I knew that didn't have anything to 
do with it, and so it didn't.  I mean, it didn't tell Windows that it was 
the A: drive I wished to defragment.

Any ideas?  Or is the Win XP Home Defrag utility no longer able to be used 
on anything but the hard drive?

thanks.



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