Originally Posted by BOAC
Seems you have it sorted? Worth noting, however, as VAP says, if you are trying to defrag the system disk or a drive which has 'calls' to it like screensaver, email checks, etc, it will continually 'restart' the defrag and take for ever. Hence 'Safe' mode.
For the experts - I thought that MS 'hotfixes' and updates could be moved once installed?? Is that correct?
Correct and another help is to hit "ctrl, alt, del" and go into the task manager and stop anything running in the background that is not needed. If there are programs running in the background that access the disk, it will indeed keep starting over as the disk contents have changed.