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

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi,

I more or less followed your suggestions, although following my own usual 
way of going about this.  I'm assuming it amounts to the same thing, from 
what I can tell:  Instead of My Computer, which isn't my preferred method of 
housekeeping, I just went to my A drive in Windows Explorer.  But that's the 
same thing, of course, just another interface.  I just happen to prefer the 
style of having the tree view of folders and drives on the left, and the 
files within each of them in the pane on the right.  It's sort of a classic 
arrangement, cgoing back to third party houskeeping applets you could get 
for a DOS machine once.  that's what I am comfortable with, having learned 
that sort of thing sighted, more than being in the sort of pipeline that 
you're in with My Computer, where you have to go backward or forward.  It's 
a different sort of conceptual paradigm.  Some day I'll start all over, get 
an advanced degree in psychological research, and do a study about how the 
brain works with these different paradigms.  It's fascinating.

Anyway, so then I opened the Properties dialogue by pressing alt enter, 
again not your exact method, but also a normal way to get into Properties.

Control tab, of course, took me to the tools tab, and a press of the tab key 
to the defrag option, which I activated by pressing enter.  I'm not sure why 
you specify such different ways to get to that point, but as long as they 
work, it's all the same.  I do understand that.  Just describing the more 
standard way, by which I do *not* mean "more correct," just more standard.

So, now we're on the same page, as they say.  But what do I get?  A message 
that, how did Windows put it?  Let me go back and do it again so I can 
quote:

Disk defragmenter cannot run on this volume type.

Now, this is an ordinary 1.4 Mb. diskette, or whatever the capacity is, 
formatted normally in Windows.  So I don't know what sort of problem Windows 
is having with it.  But at least this would seem to agree with it not 
showing up on the Defrag dialogue approached from the 
Programs/Accessories/System Tools menu under the Start menu.

But it was interesting to find another way around to this point, in any 
case, so thanks for the tips.  Another amusing example of Windows 
redundancy,which is so often remarked on in mailing list discussions.  Oh, 
well.
thanks again.
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.



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