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Can't defragment and scan disk!!!
Name: tangofango Date: June 29, 2003 at 08:25:53 Pacific OS: Win ME CPU/Ram: celeron
Comment:
I can't seem to defragment or scan disk without it keep restarting b'cos the drive contents has changed. Tried stopping all programs by using ctrl+alt+del, tried it in safe mode, tried it in selective startup, still didn't work.any other solutions please??what could be the problem?Virus?
Name: wawadave Date: June 29, 2003 at 09:23:20 Pacific
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hello you try free program"enditall" you might try shutting off every thing in msconfig start up. http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm http://www2.whidbey.com/djdenham/Uncheck.htm
its posible its a virus trojin. i had this sam problem was virus. try these scans free trojin scan http://www.trojanscan.com/trojanscan/scanner.htm panda scan http://www.pandasoftware.es/activescan/ housecall http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp rav av http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan/
test my sheilds grc https://nanoprobe.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
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Response Number 2
Name: abbijade Date: June 30, 2003 at 02:40:14 Pacific
Reply:
Look for a program called power defrag.
This uses its own dos mode.
I use this all the time 5 STARS
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Response Number 3
Name: Qginie Date: July 6, 2003 at 23:50:57 Pacific
Reply:
Dear Friend,
Scandisk will keep restarting due to changes in hard drive are happening. This problem occurs specially if you have many programs running in the Systray
Please start your system in safemode and try to scandisk and defrag your hard disk.
To start Windows in Safe mode,
1. Switch on the system. 2. Hold F8 3. You will displayed a windows with an option to select safe mode. 4. Select safe mode and press enter.
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