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HandsOff
June 21st, 2005, 03:19 PM
Whether I use Perfect Disk, or ChkDsk I always get a message that there are open handles that I have to force shut before I can defragment, or do other disk operations. Why this partition? I have 15 partitions in all and the only two that get that message are my system partition and this partion, G:

The system partition is understandable. All I use G: for is to store program downloads and updates. It is not even the first partition on the drive, in fact it is the last partion on Drive #2. It is an Extended Partion, like all of the rest except for the bootable system partition. Most of it's files are compressed with winRAR. This my be a little paranoid, but it makes me wonder if there might be some sort of trojan download, or something.

Is there a way to know what the "open handle" is?

Here is an example of one of the messages I get.


-HandsOff

diginsight
June 21st, 2005, 06:26 PM
Sysinternals handle (http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Handle.html)

HandsOff
June 23rd, 2005, 04:32 AM
Thanks, I will give it a try!

-HandsOff