can you try to defrag in safe mode. keep pressing F8 just before XP loads.
the reason normaly is you've got programmes running
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i've tried defraging without anything else open or running. have now tried the defrag in safe mode and all that happens now is that it stops at 10% of the analyzing stage. not sure where i'm going wrong