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Old May 11th 06, 01:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.display
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it seems that (for some time now) my pc will not complete a whole scan on
scan disk. it shows me a warning saying that windows is writing to another
file and so the scan disk has restarted 10 times . this is shown to me mor
than 10 times! so i cannot seem to complete a scan disk. furthermore, when i
try and defragment, it will not do it either as it says that there is an
error and so i must complete a scan disk. i have infact purchased a product
called 'error guard'(anyone know about that one?) which althgough said that
it fixed something like 257 critical errors, it didnt seem to really help.Can
anyone else please help? Getting desperate, because i dont want any long term
damage done to my pc and it seems to be slowing it and crashing it because of
this.
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Old May 11th 06, 03:47 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.display
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Default scan disk and defragmenter

Besides Mike's excellent advice, you can also 'switch-off' the nag box
regarding the scan disk having restarted 10 times and just let scandisk
continue until completion.

However, if you do have stuff running in the background, Mike's suggestion
of running scandisk in Safe Mode is the first line solution or you could
take a look at ScanDefrag v5.2.

This is a FREE utility, written by several well respected contributors to
these News Groups and has been designed to run several original MS utilities
through a 'filter' which eliminates the usual junk which stops Scandisk (and
Defrag) from running properly in Normal Mode - as you are already
experiencing g

You can get ScanDefrag at either of the two sites below - and be sure to
read the associated notes for setting it up:
http://home.earthlink.net/~bblanton2...efrag/main.htm
http://www.blueorbsoft.com/scandefrag/index.html

HTH and good luck

Mart


"Mike M" wrote in message
...
Try booting to Safe Mode and running scandisk from there. What is
probably happening is that you possibly have some other application such
as an AV or firewall that is writing a log file whilst scandisk is running
which then causes scandisk to restart. Running scandisk in Safe Mode
should stop this from happening.
--
Mike Maltby



SOFYXIT wrote:

it seems that (for some time now) my pc will not complete a whole
scan on scan disk. it shows me a warning saying that windows is
writing to another file and so the scan disk has restarted 10 times .
this is shown to me mor than 10 times! so i cannot seem to complete a
scan disk. furthermore, when i try and defragment, it will not do it
either as it says that there is an error and so i must complete a
scan disk. i have infact purchased a product called 'error
guard'(anyone know about that one?) which althgough said that it
fixed something like 257 critical errors, it didnt seem to really
help.Can anyone else please help? Getting desperate, because i dont
want any long term damage done to my pc and it seems to be slowing it
and crashing it because of this.




 




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