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

[slerythema]

Go to my computer
arrow down and highlight "a" drive (do not double click/enter)
left click (application key)
arrow down to properties and enter
control tab to the tools tab
tab down until you get to defrag and press enter

Hope that helps.

Cindy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
> [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 3:21 PM
> To: GUI-Talk
> Subject: [gui-talk] Windows XP Home Defrag doesn't see my A: drive
> 
> 
> 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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