OT: standalone defrag for W98 ?

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

There are a number of places where I could inquire about this, but
since many of you use W98, I thought 'Why not take a shot here ?' I
was recently called upon to do some maintenance on my nephew's
computer, which is running W98. One of the things it needed was a
good defrag run -- or two. The built-in utility for this does not
work: left to run for a couple hours, the process keeps bouncing
between 0 % and 1 % complete, and that's as far as it gets. Anyone
have a recommendation for a good, portable, standalone util. that can
be run _from outside_, probably from an ERD bootup ? (That means
Command Line, rather than GUI-based.) It should be appropriate for
W98, with an emphasis on safety and reliability. (I recall the
controversy over a past version or two of Norton SpeedDisk that
fatally scrambled what it was supposed to be defragmenting.) I have
used DiskKeeper on NT-4 and W2K (a "lite" version is the built-in
defragger for W2K, though not so identified) with good results, but it
has to be installed first and so is not external or portable.

Jordan