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Scandisk won't run in MS DOS
Name: REKKA Date: February 18, 2006 at 17:27:42 Pacific CPU/Ram: AMD Duron 800mhz /64 mg r Product: Compaq presario 5002us
Comment:
This is really bothering me. I tried to run Scandisk in DOS with WinME Startup Disk. Everything seems to work, the screen pops up but it simply freezes before it starts scanning the first item (media)
Name: Faris_B Date: February 19, 2006 at 19:47:33 Pacific
Reply:
Does the computer even boot into windows? Can you run scandisk from windows or is there some problem? The hard disk may be bad. Can you read data on C:? Type in C: at the A: prompt and type in DIR and see what it says.
Faris,
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Response Number 2
Name: REKKA Date: February 22, 2006 at 17:29:04 Pacific
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Hey Faris, thanks for the response, yes the machine boots up OK, but recently my PC has been running scandisk (thorough mode) at bootup a couple times. When it finished (hours later), I tried to defrag but it said to run scandisk. Confused, I tried scandisk in DOS and it froze up on me. How else can I test the hard drive?
Summary: true, I didn't think of that for some reason........I"ll give it a try, anyone else have a clue why it won't run in Windows though????? I'll drop a line to see if it works, I'll start it then go to b...
Summary: "how do you run scandisk in ms-dos prompt?" Like any other executable - you type it in & enter - if it's on your floppy it should run scandisk c: Chkdsk began in the DOS days, was replaced by Scandis...
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