Defragmanter problems...
Defragmanter problems...
Hi guys, hoping you can help me out again...
I`ve tried the trial versions of perfectdisk and diskeeper (and liked both) but now they`ve expired I`ve uninstalled them and my MS defragmenter spits its dummy out with the following error...
Snap-in failed to initialize.
Name:<unknown>
CLSID:{43668E21-2636-11D1-A1CE-0080C88593A5}
Any ideas? Trawled about a bit and nowt seemed to work, but I know you guys can sort it!!
Thanx again
I`ve tried the trial versions of perfectdisk and diskeeper (and liked both) but now they`ve expired I`ve uninstalled them and my MS defragmenter spits its dummy out with the following error...
Snap-in failed to initialize.
Name:<unknown>
CLSID:{43668E21-2636-11D1-A1CE-0080C88593A5}
Any ideas? Trawled about a bit and nowt seemed to work, but I know you guys can sort it!!
Thanx again
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Perhaps look into this as a possible source of the problem.
Perhaps look into this as a possible source of the problem.
Maybe you have to reinstall the snapin.
Disk Management - This is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and is the replacement for the Windows NT Disk Administrator. Only a member of the Administrators group can use this tool. It can manage local or remote disk volumes. It is used to:
Make and format partitions.
Create, format, or delete simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 volumes.
Modify a disk from basic to dynamic type or vice versa, create. A disk can only be converted from dynamic to basic by first deleting all the volumes in the dynamic disk.
Display information about the disk including the disk type (basic or dynamic), disk number, disk size and disk status. Disk status can be:
Online
Foreign - Remote disk
No Media - For removable disks.
Offline - For dynamic disks that cannot be reached due to various possible reasons. The disk may be remote.
Online (errors) - There are errors on the disk.
Unreadable - Errors preventing access have occurred.
Unrecognized - Unknown type of disk.
It will also provide volume information including size, name, and status. Volume status can be:
Healthy
Healthy (boot) - Active primary partition on the first drive.
Healthy (system) - if same as boot volume, it is called "Healthy (boot)".
Failed
Failed Redundancy - A fault tolerant volume is not on line.
Failed Redundancy (At Risk) - A fault tolerant volume that has lost fault tolerence has errors detedted on it.
Healthy (At Risk) - Errors have been detected on the volume.
Initializing - Dynamic volume being initialized.
Regenerating
Resynching - Mirrored volumes are being resynchronized
Recover from drive failures.
To install Disk Management:
From an MMC console, click "Add/Remove Snap-in".
Click "Add", select "Disk Management".
Select the computer to install on, and finish.
To start Disk Management, do one of:
Diskeeper has a free light version, it does everything except a scheduled defrag. I think the XP defragmenter is based on diskeeper so removing that may be what messed it up.
Disk Management - This is a snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and is the replacement for the Windows NT Disk Administrator. Only a member of the Administrators group can use this tool. It can manage local or remote disk volumes. It is used to:
Make and format partitions.
Create, format, or delete simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 volumes.
Modify a disk from basic to dynamic type or vice versa, create. A disk can only be converted from dynamic to basic by first deleting all the volumes in the dynamic disk.
Display information about the disk including the disk type (basic or dynamic), disk number, disk size and disk status. Disk status can be:
Online
Foreign - Remote disk
No Media - For removable disks.
Offline - For dynamic disks that cannot be reached due to various possible reasons. The disk may be remote.
Online (errors) - There are errors on the disk.
Unreadable - Errors preventing access have occurred.
Unrecognized - Unknown type of disk.
It will also provide volume information including size, name, and status. Volume status can be:
Healthy
Healthy (boot) - Active primary partition on the first drive.
Healthy (system) - if same as boot volume, it is called "Healthy (boot)".
Failed
Failed Redundancy - A fault tolerant volume is not on line.
Failed Redundancy (At Risk) - A fault tolerant volume that has lost fault tolerence has errors detedted on it.
Healthy (At Risk) - Errors have been detected on the volume.
Initializing - Dynamic volume being initialized.
Regenerating
Resynching - Mirrored volumes are being resynchronized
Recover from drive failures.
To install Disk Management:
From an MMC console, click "Add/Remove Snap-in".
Click "Add", select "Disk Management".
Select the computer to install on, and finish.
To start Disk Management, do one of:
Diskeeper has a free light version, it does everything except a scheduled defrag. I think the XP defragmenter is based on diskeeper so removing that may be what messed it up.
hello you can always re-register the files needed to defrag so that they should then work...you can just click start, goto run and type cmd, press enter...then type cd windows\system32 then type 'regsvr32 dfrgsnap.dll' and press enter and 'regsvr32 dlfrgui.dll' and press enter that should do and work if you still havent solved the problem hope i helped..
Ok guys, tried all of these now and still get the snap-in failed to initialise error upon trying to start defragger and when I try to re-register those files I still get the error message...
'regsvr32' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
So any more ideas short of a fresh install!?!?!?!?!
Thanx
'regsvr32' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file
So any more ideas short of a fresh install!?!?!?!?!
Thanx
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Have you considered running WindowsXP install disk and running the "repair" option? It would avoid having to do a fresh install, but you might have to retweak your registry when you are done... or back it up and import it after the repair. Which might make the entire repair process pointless.
I dunno, if what they suggest doesn't work I'd try a repair before a fresh install.
I dunno, if what they suggest doesn't work I'd try a repair before a fresh install.
One Sick Tzim
Dell Dimension 4550
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And just in case anyone has any idea what I am talking about: My first computer was a Unisys!
Dell Dimension 4550
Intel Pentium 4 2.53 GHz
256 MB DDR SDRAM 333 MHz
NVidia GeForce2 MX 64 MB
Windows XP SP2
Dell Axim X3
Blackberry 6710
And just in case anyone has any idea what I am talking about: My first computer was a Unisys!

Repair XP Installation without Clean Install:
Configure your computer BIOS to start from the CD-ROM drive at bootup.
Insert your Windows XP compact disc (CD) into your CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer.
When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message is displayed on your screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
When you see the following message displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER:
To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
At this point an option to press R to enter the Recovery Console is displayed. Do not select this option.
On the Windows XP Licensing Agreement screen, press F8 to agree to the license agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press the R key to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
This will repair XP and put everything back to as it first was. You will have to reinstall any Hotfixes and OS updates including SP1 and DX9, plus retweak most (but not all) things all over again.
The advanage here is that you will not have to spend hours reinstallindg all your programs again, as well as setting them up...................
Configure your computer BIOS to start from the CD-ROM drive at bootup.
Insert your Windows XP compact disc (CD) into your CD-ROM drive or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart your computer.
When the "Press any key to boot from CD" message is displayed on your screen, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD.
When you see the following message displayed on the Welcome to Setup screen, press ENTER:
To setup Windows XP now, press ENTER.
At this point an option to press R to enter the Recovery Console is displayed. Do not select this option.
On the Windows XP Licensing Agreement screen, press F8 to agree to the license agreement.
Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the box, and then press the R key to repair Windows XP.
Follow the instructions on the screen to complete Setup.
This will repair XP and put everything back to as it first was. You will have to reinstall any Hotfixes and OS updates including SP1 and DX9, plus retweak most (but not all) things all over again.
The advanage here is that you will not have to spend hours reinstallindg all your programs again, as well as setting them up...................
