Compression Agent Resets to 5 Percent Complete
Article ID: 139708
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Plus! 95 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q139708
SYMPTOMS
Compression Agent may seem to randomly reset the percentage completed to
5 percent when you are compressing a hard disk. When this occurs, you may
receive the message "The drive's contents have changed: restarting..."
CAUSE
If a program or the operating system writes to the hard disk while
Compression Agent is running, Compression Agent must scan the FAT again and
walk the directory tree to make sure that the policy is current for every
cluster on the disk. When this occurs, the percentage completed drops to 5
percent. It then climbs back up to 9 percent, and then jumps back to the
point from which it dropped.
RESOLUTION
Quit all programs that can write to the hard disk. In some cases, Advanced
Power Management features may cause this behavior to occur. Because
Compression Agent continues retrying until it finishes, you may want to use
System Agent to cause Compression Agent to continue retrying until a set
time.
STATUS
This behavior is by design.
Additional query words: sage cmpagent
Keywords: KB139708