Scan Disk troubles

Hi. when i start my computer it goes into scandisk
because it says the computer was shut down incorrectly,
but i go through start, shutdown, then turn it off. i
select thorough check and i let it run for a while and
scandisk usually starts over 10 times and i restart it and
let it go for a while. sometimes, but not always, it
starts checking the clusters. first it counts up to
38,000. then once/if it gets that far the number jumps to
2 million and something and it usually never finishes
before it starts over. i've tried the program everyone
has suggested to download and it just runs into the same
thing. i've tried safe mode and it runs into the same
thing. i can cancel out of scandisk and then i can log on
and the computer runs as usual. i know there's something
wrong even if the computer looks fine on the surface and
i'd like to fix it. i can't run defrag because of this
problem either. i'm about to wipe my hard drive clean
because of this problem, but it's alot of work to reload
everything if there's an easier fix.

Steve
First try running scandisk from DOS -
Boot with your startup floppy (use option 3 - without CD support), and type

SCANDISK C:

at the A:\ prompt - hit [Enter]
when it completes the normal scan, it'll offer to do a surface scan - let
it.
See what that reports.


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"Steve Dave" wrote in message
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Hi. when i start my computer it goes into scandisk
because it says the computer was shut down incorrectly,
but i go through start, shutdown, then turn it off. i
select thorough check and i let it run for a while and
scandisk usually starts over 10 times and i restart it and
let it go for a while. sometimes, but not always, it
starts checking the clusters. first it counts up to
38,000. then once/if it gets that far the number jumps to
2 million and something and it usually never finishes
before it starts over. i've tried the program everyone
has suggested to download and it just runs into the same
thing. i've tried safe mode and it runs into the same
thing. i can cancel out of scandisk and then i can log on
and the computer runs as usual. i know there's something
wrong even if the computer looks fine on the surface and
i'd like to fix it. i can't run defrag because of this
problem either. i'm about to wipe my hard drive clean
because of this problem, but it's alot of work to reload
everything if there's an easier fix.