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Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told
there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other programs whatsoever running at the time! Has anyone any idea what is happening. Help would be much appreciated. Paul |
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Paul,
Boot to Safe Mode and run Scandisk from there. Alternatively and possibly better boot to DOS using a Win Me boot floppy and run Scandisk from the DOS prompt. Safe Mode will reduce the number of processes such as your AV and firewall writing to the hard disk during the scandisk and running Scandisk from DOS will remove them entirely. -- Mike Maltby Paul. Scandisk Paul. wrote: Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other programs whatsoever running at the time! Has anyone any idea what is happening. Help would be much appreciated. Paul |
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Try running it in Safemode or in a Command Prompt Start. See he
Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Paul. Scandisk wrote: Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other programs whatsoever running at the time! Has anyone any idea what is happening. Help would be much appreciated. Paul |
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Mike,
Many thanks.This has worked perfectly. I have now run standard Scandisk from Safe Mode and this ran absolutely normally. revealing several faults which it repaired.The Defrag then worked perfectly. Thanks also for the advice you sent me on booting into Safe Mode - i.e. keep tapping the Cntrl or F8 key as PC is powered up. Thanks again ..Paul "Mike M" wrote: Paul, Boot to Safe Mode and run Scandisk from there. Alternatively and possibly better boot to DOS using a Win Me boot floppy and run Scandisk from the DOS prompt. Safe Mode will reduce the number of processes such as your AV and firewall writing to the hard disk during the scandisk and running Scandisk from DOS will remove them entirely. -- Mike Maltby Paul. Scandisk Paul. wrote: Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other programs whatsoever running at the time! Has anyone any idea what is happening. Help would be much appreciated. Paul |
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John,
Many thanks for taking the time to answer my question. Starting form Safe Mode worked perfectly.Help much appreciated. "John John" wrote: Try running it in Safemode or in a Command Prompt Start. See he Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Paul. Scandisk wrote: Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other programs whatsoever running at the time! Has anyone any idea what is happening. Help would be much appreciated. Paul |
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Sounds like good advice but I hate safe mode. All my icons want to take up
new residences elsewhere and I have to retrain them. I accomplish the same thing by using ctrl, alt, delete and close each program one at a time except systray and explorer. After that scandisk and defrag work fine. Kelly Ohio "Paul. Scandisk" wrote: John, Many thanks for taking the time to answer my question. Starting form Safe Mode worked perfectly.Help much appreciated. "John John" wrote: Try running it in Safemode or in a Command Prompt Start. See he Err Msg: ScanDisk Has Restarted 10 Times Because Windows... http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469 Or try this: ScanDefrag 5.2 http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/ or EndItAll http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,697,00.asp John Paul. Scandisk wrote: Whenever I run Scandisk (I need to because I cannot Defrag as I am told there are errors on the disc and Scandisk is recommended) after about two minutes I get a box telling me that Scandisk has restarted ten times because Windows or another program is writing to this drive. I have no other programs whatsoever running at the time! Has anyone any idea what is happening. Help would be much appreciated. Paul |
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kbsmith9 wrote:
Sounds like good advice but I hate safe mode. All my icons want to take up new residences elsewhere and I have to retrain them. XP has eliminated that problem. It used to drive me nuts when I had Me. Alias -- Use the Reply to Sender feature of your news reader program to email me. Utiliza Responder al Remitente para mandarme un mail. |
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XP has all kinds of other thing to drive people mad... ;-)
John Alias wrote: kbsmith9 wrote: Sounds like good advice but I hate safe mode. All my icons want to take up new residences elsewhere and I have to retrain them. XP has eliminated that problem. It used to drive me nuts when I had Me. Alias |
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=?Utf-8?B?a2JzbWl0aDk=?= wrote in
: Sounds like good advice but I hate safe mode. All my icons want to take up new residences elsewhere and I have to retrain them. Check out this handy utility. You 'save' your desktop icon layout, and can restore it anytime your desktop gets messed up. I have used it for years and it works faultlessly on WinME. http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html quote Icon Restore installs LAYOUT.DLL (along with the required registry entries) from Microsoft. Two new options are added to the pop up menu that opens when any Windows system icon (ex. My Computer) is right clicked. These options are "Save Desktop Icon Layout" and "Restore Desktop Icon Layout". -- Adam and Eve - the worlds happiest couple ever. Neither had a mother-in-law. |
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"Doc" ] wrote in message ... : =?Utf-8?B?a2JzbWl0aDk=?= wrote in : : : : Sounds like good advice but I hate safe mode. All my icons want to : take up new residences elsewhere and I have to retrain them. : : Check out this handy utility. You 'save' your desktop icon layout, and : can restore it anytime your desktop gets messed up. I have used it for : years and it works faultlessly on WinME. : : http://users.rcn.com/taylotr/icon_restore.html : : quote : : Icon Restore installs LAYOUT.DLL (along with the required registry : entries) from Microsoft. Two new options are added to the pop up menu : that opens when any Windows system icon (ex. My Computer) is right : clicked. These options are "Save Desktop Icon Layout" and "Restore : Desktop Icon Layout". : : -- : Adam and Eve - the worlds happiest couple ever. : Neither had a mother-in-law. And here's another fine application for restoring desktop icons: http://www.sillysot.com/ It has many other features but the really invaluable one is its ability to put all icons back where you left them (provided that you save their positions before entering Safe Mode). |
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