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scandisk
Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is
loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)? |
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Yes, by booting from a floppy. You might however be interested in
ScanDefrag (http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/) which allows both scandisk and defrag to be run in much the way you want. -- Mike Maltby proteanthread wrote: Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)? |
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On Feb 11, 7:19*pm, "Mike M" wrote:
Yes, by booting from a floppy. *You might however be interested in ScanDefrag (http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/) which allows both scandisk and defrag to be run in much the way you want. -- Mike Maltby proteanthread wrote: Is there a way to run scandisk @ startup before the Windows GUI is loaded (like in Windows 95 or 98)? Whenever I try to add anything or even "SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM" to autoexec.bat, everything I added gets deleted; How can I override this then? |
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proteanthread wrote:
Whenever I try to add anything or even "SCANDISK C: /CUSTOM" to autoexec.bat, everything I added gets deleted; How can I override this then? So you chose to ignore my previous suggestion to look at scandefrag. OK, that's your choice entirely as it is mine as I don't use it either but then I don't have any problems running either scandisk or defrag. However what you cannot ignore and that you have now discovered is that Win Me doesn't use the autoexec.bat file which is retained solely for backwards compatibility. This isn't strictly true because Win Me does process the contents of autoexec.bat but on shutdown, rather that at start up, transferring any SET environment variable entries it finds to the registry for use in the next session. Your options are to either run scandisk from a boot floppy, use scandefrag or boot to Safe Mode and run it from there. -- Mike Maltby |
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