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Windows Me Scandisk and Defrag Errors
Name: Brett Bruce Date: November 8, 2000 at 23:43:18 Pacific
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After installing Win me, I cant get my sytem to defrag or Scandisk. It acts as normal but just keeps running as if there is some glitch. i left it running for a whole night and it was still running in the morning. I noticed it when I tried to use the Uninstall for ME. Anyone else having the same issue and if so, does anyone have the fix so that I can unistall Win ME without reformatting.
Name: Robin Date: November 9, 2000 at 02:49:42 Pacific
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I had the same problem, scandisk not completeing. There is an old Posting in This Forum, posted September 16 Tittled Norton, when a Johnathan fixed the problem useing Disk Doctor from Norton Utilities V4. I only had an old V3, which I never got round to installing. I duely installed same, ran Disk Doctor and Hey Presto, scandisk runs clean in Windows ME
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Response Number 2
Name: stuart Date: November 9, 2000 at 10:09:01 Pacific
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I had the same problem i started in safe mode and ran scandisk and defrag with no probs.
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Response Number 3
Name: dave brown Date: November 11, 2000 at 20:01:07 Pacific
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ScanDisk works for me, but at the WRONG time. EVERY time a turn my PC on, ScanDisk starts to run. For some reason, it thinks I've done an ilegal shutdown. How do you disable ScanDisk? Yet when I turn my PC off by the power switch, it boots up fine the next time I turn it on.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ferman Blalock Date: November 16, 2000 at 23:13:57 Pacific
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I have the same problem. runing in safe mode does not help. I have a 20 gig and a 10 gig works ok on the smaller one but get status message in defrag "finding new data" and then restarts from beginning. This is a new drive but maybe I need a new driver. Any Ideas?
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Response Number 5
Name: David Wang Date: January 21, 2001 at 21:00:05 Pacific
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Me too, I got the same problem. It keeps running every time the windows starts, and it will never finishes unless I cancel it manually.
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