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Upon every bootup Scandisk begins a through scan but even 6 hours later, it is not finished and even hangs up. I must cancel it to use computer. I tried it in Safe Mode and same thing. I tried defrag and it told me I need a through Diskscan.
Problem began after I tried Norton's Diskscan, so I uninstalled Norton's and restored under WinMe, which is my OS.
That was to no avail.
I do not get any error messages during this Scandisk fiasco!
I have WD 30G ata100 HD and WinMe.
What the Hell is Wrong????
The first time I had this problem was on my old hardrive.
Unfortunately my first drive proved to be damaged and scandisk was not able to physically fix it. After a couple of days I got a boot message warning me that my hard drive was failing and failure may be immenent, back up all data.
To be safe back up just in case.
I have had this problem again with my new drive tried in safemode as well, finally for some unknown reason it worked but took almost 15 hours.
There is a simple program available called "end it all". This software shuts down all background programs which can cause problems when installing or running scandisk
You can get it here
http://home.ptd.net/~don5408/toolbox/enditall/The reason scandisk keeps stopping is because of background activity.
This might work.
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Sorry did not read properly, you get it on boot.
Sorry cant help here, all I know is that scandisk runs on boot after improper shutdown.
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Go to Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools and click on ScanDisk. Make sure "Standard" and NOT "Thorough" is checked.
Also go to Start/Run type in msconfig, click on startup, and make sure ScanDisk is not scheduled to run at startup.
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When you're finished all that good advice, have a look here
http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/14062.html
at points 2,5,6,7,9 and especially go here for good msconfig and startup information
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm
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Use a startup disk to get to a DOS prompt and scandisk/all, then press enter. This shouls allow scandisk to complete without hanging, and once all errors are repaired you should run defrag in safe mode.
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I have downloaded DirectX 8.0 and all WinMe updates and I still have same problem. I will try scandisk from floppy next....I will let you know what happens!
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Often times, if you have several programs running in your "startup" the scandisk will hang and never finish...you can close these progrmas by looking in the lower right-hand corner of your screen (they will come back when you re-boot next time). After closing, try running scandisk. Hope that helps.
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Nothing Worked!@#
I had to Fdisk and Format Drive.
I installed Win98 SE. I think it's a bit more stable than WinMe.
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