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Old June 14th 04, 04:50 PM
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Default ScanDisk & Defrag problems

I used Vcom System 5 and scanned and defraged from there.
It took several hours. But now my system works and the
Windows-based scan and defrag work.

If one of these other ideas worked as well, please
repost. This is a very frustrating problem.

Thanks for posting - anonymous because I don't need penile
implants
-----Original Message-----
Hi all,

My problem concerns ScanDisk in Windows 98.

Every time I try to perform a Thorough (performs Standard

test and scans
disk surface for errors); ScanDisk starts to scan and

then after a while I
get a message saying something like: "ScanDisk has

restarted 10 times
because there is another program running in the

background. Please shut down
this other program..."

It even does the same thing in Safe Mode, where hitting

ctrl+al+del reveals
that the only thing running is Explorer!

I tried to defrag my hard drive last night and a short

way into the defrag
process but the defrag wouldn't complete & gave me a

message saying "There
is an error on your C: drive. Run ScanDisk to fix the

problem, then run
Defrag again." So I run ScanDisk and I'm back to square

one (the original
error message I described earlier).

I can't defrag my hard drive and I can't scan my hard

drive for errors
w/ScanDisk - what can I do about this? Can anyone please

help me solve this
problem?

Thanks,
Kingy75


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