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XP won't scan disk upon reboot
Name: fungifu Date: June 15, 2004 at 10:23:50 Pacific OS: XP Pro CPU/Ram: 1000Mhz/ 640Mb
Comment:
This is driving me crazy! When I set my computer to scan disk on reboot i get 1 of 2 messages: windows has finished disk scan no errors (it hasn't done ANYTHING!) or cannot do it , needs total volume access then proceeds to login window (it boots up again no probs at least). How can i fix this.Thanks to anyone who can help. fungifu
Name: XpUser Date: June 15, 2004 at 11:53:19 Pacific
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A shot in the dark, Do you have AV running at bootup?
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Response Number 2
Name: fungifu Date: June 15, 2004 at 15:33:03 Pacific
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Yes i have Norton AV & a Zone Alarm firewall.
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Response Number 3
Name: XpUser Date: June 15, 2004 at 16:06:33 Pacific
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"Yes i have Norton AV & a Zone Alarm firewall."
Is Norton AV configured to scan everything from bootup to Windows?
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Response Number 4
Name: fungifu Date: June 15, 2004 at 17:35:09 Pacific
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Yes it is, in fact after login it's set to start a scan disk with fix errors but it can't so asks if I'd like to on reboot. I always say yes.........it used to work %50 of the time but now I also setup a scan through My Computer/tools etc. I guess i figure the odds are better that way.But no luck in 10 or more reboots.
fungifu
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Response Number 5
Name: fungifu Date: June 15, 2004 at 17:39:11 Pacific
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Perhaps just one or the other?
fungifu
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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser Date: June 15, 2004 at 17:41:18 Pacific
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The AV is stopping scandisk from doing its job. That's why scandisk requires total volume access. Go to AV configuration to turn it off. After scanbdisk is done, turn it back on. While scandisk is running, take a break, watch TV maybe.
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Response Number 7
Name: fungifu Date: June 15, 2004 at 18:35:40 Pacific
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Well XPUser, i totally disabilied Norton AV in Run/msconfig but still no luck. Any other ideas?You're right though, it must be something in the bootup process all it says now is 'cannot access volume'.
fungifu
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Response Number 8
Name: yansky Date: July 9, 2004 at 02:32:11 Pacific
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I had the same problem, but I wasn't running Norton or Zonealarm. What I did was set the computer to scan the disk on reboot then kill all processes with the task manager. Kill everything including explorer.exe. Then reboot and it should work. I have no idea why this worked, it could just be my system.
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Response Number 9
Name: molle Date: July 20, 2004 at 04:45:27 Pacific
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I had same problem and disabling NAV didn't work.
The problem was ZA, just stop it temp from loading with Windows or temp uninstall.
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