Every time I reboot my system -- whether for program crash, program install, or even just for the hell of it -- Windows ME auto starts the Scandisk program when I restart. Even if I have chosen to reboot off the Start Menu (Start, Shutdown, restart) it will say windows has been shutdown incorrectly and run scandisk. I've searched on this, but can't find anything. Anyone have any ideas?

it happened to me also with an external disk, try to do the Thorough scan (over night.. it takes long time), that helped me Regards Miro

I actually had the same problem but my tech fixed it for me. On Windows ME there is a built in autorun scandisk function and I believe to turn this fucntion off, you need to use the msconfig command from the RUN prompt.(start/run). Britton

There are 2 things I think off: -Scandisk has managed to get in your startup (use start->run->msconfig) -I heard of computers that shut down to fast. This reacts in data that was still in your buffer and hasn't been written to your harddisk yet. The consequence is scandisk. I believe there's a patch for it. I'll look it up and post it here if I find something. JOhan

suppose it's easier if you take a look here: http://www.aumha.org/a/shutdown.htm JOhan

Another way is to edit your MSDOS.SYS file. It is Read-Only, so you'll have to remove that in order to change the contents of the file. (Just be sure to change it back to Read-Only once you're done!). Find the variable called AutoScan=#... Set the number to 0 to prevent Scandisk from running, change to 1 if you want to be prompted, and change to 2 if you want Scandisk to run automatically. G "Pete" Peeters

You might want to head to windows update... there is a fix for this: Microsoft KB: ScanDisk Runs Even Though Windows Shut Down Correctly