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Scandisk
Name: Marty Date: December 24, 1999 at 18:45:47 Pacific
Comment:
I have windows 95 and I can't run Defrag or scandisk on my C drive. Works fine on D & E drive.
Name: Jim Clark Date: December 24, 1999 at 19:30:24 Pacific
Reply:
Make a Win 95 Boot Disk by going into Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs Icon->Startup Disk. Insert your Win 95 Disk into your CD ROM drive (you may be asked for it). Make a copy of SCANDISK.exe and put it on the diskette. Insert Diskette in Drive A and reboot. Choose the DOS prompt selection. At the A prompt type:
SCANDISK C:
That should do it.
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Response Number 2
Name: ergmiester Date: December 24, 1999 at 20:17:21 Pacific
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What happens when you try to run scandisk? After 10 mins do you get a "scandisk has restarted 10 times, a program is writing to the disk"?
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Response Number 3
Name: Robert Steiner Date: March 2, 2000 at 13:19:17 Pacific
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have exactly the same problem. Get the message that Windows or another program has been writing to this drive. I've quit everything. I've gone into ctrl-alt-del and ended every task. Nothing works. Everytime I restart scandisk it goes for awhile and then says it has been interrupted and has to start over ten times. Any help would be great.
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Response Number 4
Name: Robert Steiner Date: March 2, 2000 at 14:20:47 Pacific
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Didn't read far enough. The answer is there. Ending all but explorer and systray tasks then running scandisk from DOS prompt got me through it. Thanks.
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Response Number 5
Name: Mick Ruthven Date: April 4, 2000 at 16:19:03 Pacific
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I have the same problem and can comoplete Scandisk via DOS. But I still don't understand why it gives the "10 times" message and stops in Win 95 (screensaver and all tasks except explorer and systray).
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Response Number 6
Name: Tony Britten Date: January 14, 2001 at 08:59:04 Pacific
Reply:
Also have same problem and same message. All tasks shut down except Explorer and systray as suggested. Is it a bug?
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