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December 18th 08, 04:36 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB.
Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? Thanks. 
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December 18th 08, 07:46 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
Scanregw is not concerned about the size of the hard disk drive. It is
quite safe and there is no reason to do anything with it. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? Thanks.
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December 18th 08, 07:46 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
Scanregw is not concerned about the size of the hard disk drive. It is
quite safe and there is no reason to do anything with it. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? Thanks.
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December 18th 08, 08:20 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
So, in the event of a bad shutdown it is OK to leave it enabled and have it
do its thing? Would you know if WinME's Defrag and Scandisk are OK to use for maintenance of same said large HD-D 137GB ? "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Scanregw is not concerned about the size of the hard disk drive. It is quite safe and there is no reason to do anything with it. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? Thanks.
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December 18th 08, 08:20 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
So, in the event of a bad shutdown it is OK to leave it enabled and have it
do its thing? Would you know if WinME's Defrag and Scandisk are OK to use for maintenance of same said large HD-D 137GB ? "Jeff Richards" wrote in message ... Scanregw is not concerned about the size of the hard disk drive. It is quite safe and there is no reason to do anything with it. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? Thanks.
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December 18th 08, 09:25 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
You may have a misunderstanding of what ScanRegW does. Please see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183887 -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... So, in the event of a bad shutdown it is OK to leave it enabled and have it do its thing? Would you know if WinME's Defrag and Scandisk are OK to use for maintenance of same said large HD-D 137GB ?
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December 18th 08, 09:25 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
You may have a misunderstanding of what ScanRegW does. Please see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183887 -- Jeff Richards MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... So, in the event of a bad shutdown it is OK to leave it enabled and have it do its thing? Would you know if WinME's Defrag and Scandisk are OK to use for maintenance of same said large HD-D 137GB ?
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December 18th 08, 09:39 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
Let me just query whether you used XP's Disk Manager to repair that
replacement disk FAT and Partition issues? Or any other disk repair tool? Responders should note: the disks in question are 500gig. One 500gig already toasted.... OSs are XP [not updated] and Win98[SE?]. -- MEB ~~ "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... | So, in the event of a bad shutdown it is OK to leave it enabled and have it | do its thing? | | Would you know if WinME's Defrag and Scandisk are OK to use for maintenance | of same said large HD-D 137GB ? | | "Jeff Richards" wrote in message | ... | Scanregw is not concerned about the size of the hard disk drive. It is | quite safe and there is no reason to do anything with it. | -- | Jeff Richards | MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) | "Dingwhistle" wrote in message | ... | Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. | Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? | | What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? | | Thanks. | | | | | | |
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December 18th 08, 09:39 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
Let me just query whether you used XP's Disk Manager to repair that
replacement disk FAT and Partition issues? Or any other disk repair tool? Responders should note: the disks in question are 500gig. One 500gig already toasted.... OSs are XP [not updated] and Win98[SE?]. -- MEB ~~ "Dingwhistle" wrote in message ... | So, in the event of a bad shutdown it is OK to leave it enabled and have it | do its thing? | | Would you know if WinME's Defrag and Scandisk are OK to use for maintenance | of same said large HD-D 137GB ? | | "Jeff Richards" wrote in message | ... | Scanregw is not concerned about the size of the hard disk drive. It is | quite safe and there is no reason to do anything with it. | -- | Jeff Richards | MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User) | "Dingwhistle" wrote in message | ... | Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. | Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? | | What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? | | Thanks. | | | | | | |
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December 18th 08, 09:44 AM
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Large Hard Drive... recommended Scan/Defrag
Dingwhistle wrote:
Win98SE having Hard Disk larger than 137GB. Which Scandisk/Defrag is recommended ? What about scanregw.exe; is it unsafe ? Should it be disabled ? Depends on the partitionsize. It's not recommended to use it on partitions bigger than about 127GiB. Disksize doesn't matter *for scandisk/defrag*.
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