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scandisk after bad shutdown
Name: hadas Date: December 4, 2000 at 04:12:51 Pacific
Comment:
After a bad shutdown windows me starts to do scandisk and is restarting it self all the time. When i do a regular scandisk its all right. I disabled the option for scandisk after bad shutdown (in the msconfig), but i would like to have this option on. If any one can help.... Thanks.
Name: Lucky Eddie Date: December 4, 2000 at 10:47:03 Pacific
Reply:
Had the same problem a few weeks ago, and it was the first sign that the HD was going bad. Last week I had to replace it (it was only 4 months old by the way). I'm not saying that is definitely your problem but seriously consider backing up any important data staright away, because if the disk goes it will be expesive if not impossible to recover.
Eddie
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Response Number 2
Name: newgrl Date: December 5, 2000 at 00:50:28 Pacific
Reply:
to figure out what's causing the "bad" shutdowns... try performing a clean boot:
go to start>>run>>msconfig choose selective startup uncheck everything underneath click apply>>ok>>reboot when prompted.
did the computer shut down properly?
if it did... go back to msconfig and use process of elimanation to figure out what the problem is... once you have it narrowed down to one specific "check mark" under selective startup, go to the tab that corresponds to the problem group and narrow it down from there.
Summary: Disregard my last message found it. Go Start, Run. Type: msconfig Click on Advanced button, check the "disable run scandisk after bad shutdown" (or something like that)...
Summary: from Q152404; To disable Scandisk from running automatically after a bad shutdown, use one of the following procedures: Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, or Windows Millennium (Me) ...
Summary: Not sure this'll do it,but make sure all your background programs are NOT running...especially screensavers,AV programs.Then go to Start/Run/type msconfig/click on the advanced button,and put a check ...
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