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- Reports Wrong Disk Size
- I used linux upt to image some win98 machines. The original machine had a 8g hard drive and the ones I imaged had 4g hard drives. The imaged machines now think they have 8's in windows(98) although the Bios reports the correct size. I had this happen a...
- Tags: Cabe0052@..., disk, Run SCANDISK, Scandisk, SCANDISK SCANDISK, windows
- Q&A 2006-01-25
- cannot open volume for direct access
- i have win xp home. i want to run scandisk. when i reboot to run scandisk it gives the message that "cannot open volume for direct access"i just started getting this message, ran scandisk on here o.k. before. it will just continue to reboot without a scan.See links below. ...
- Tags: hard drive, jimboputer, run scandisk, safe mode, Service Pack 2
- Q&A 2005-04-25
- Internet Explorer
- when ever we double click the icon or try and get to the internet the window with info to send to Windows keeps coming up, i'm still looking for an answer , i've tried cleaning out the temp files and also tried even reinstalling still keeps coming up with the...
- Tags: Internet, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, puterman40@..., Run SCANDISK, window, windows
- Q&A 2005-04-25
- can't defrag
- I use win98SE, and suddenly can not complete the defrag operation. I have let in run for over nine hours and it shows no percent of completion, and just keeps running.Any ideas are welcomeThanks,WarrenDid you turn the swap file off befre attempting to defrag?If you have not already done so,...
- Tags: POSTER, run scandisk, Safe Mode, warrenL, willcomp, windows
- Q&A 2005-03-02
Additional Resources
- Tech Tip: Troubleshoot ScanDisk problems
- Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 and Windows 98 systems may prompt you to run ScanDisk at startup after displaying the messages: Windows was not shut down properly or One or more of your disk drives may have developed bad sectors. These versions of Windows include a feature that checks...
- Tags: Operating systems, ScanDisk, Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
- scandisk
- hi !!! i am running window xp , I scheduled for scandisk ,when the pc load up it can't scan .It said "cannot open volume for direct access''. i had service pack 2 installed in my computer.You may have success if you schedule Chkdsk to run at startup...
- Tags: chkdsk.exe, disk, hieple12@..., software, windows
- Q&A 2006-02-25
- Scandisk & Defrag
- Scandisk and Defrag are important utilities that come with Windows, to help you tune up your Windows filesystem and make sure it's running properly. Scandisk checks your drive to make sure there aren't any problems with it, and Defrag short for Disk Defragmenter organizes your filesystem to help Windows read...
- Tags: File System, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers 2000-11-06
- HDD have developed bad sectors..I think it's not valid errors
- I have this errors for couple of months now, everytime I start booting up these 2 messages comes up: "One or more of your disk drives may have developed bad sectors. Press any key to run scandisk with surface analysis on these drive..."then..after hitting a key the next mssg...
- Tags: bad sector, disk, floppy disk, hard drive, hardware, r69@...
- Discussion threads 2004-11-30
- lost dll
- How can I cancel scheduled scandisk. When it runs , it removes cryptdll.dll Windows XP home runs start up then stop, "can not find cryptdll.dll . If I recover with GO Back and use manual cancel of scan, Windows boots and runs normally.HelpSCANDISK will...SCANDISK will remove a file if:1. The...
- Tags: ScanDisk, davehandler@..., software, d_handler@..., hard drive
- Discussion threads 2006-10-16
- unmountable_boot_volume
- i just install xp in my laptop.after few days when i boot my laptop there is error " technical information ***stop: 0x000000ED(0x82767748,0xc0000032,0x00000000,0x00000000)i cant do anything, can u solve my problem please! thankFrom microsoft supporthttp://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=297185I had a computer like that, it was fixed by running a scandisk program off of a...
- Tags: slipknotsr@...
- Q&A 2004-10-06
- Unwanted disk check at boot
- My HDD was corrupted recently so that Windows would not boot. I installed a new drive complete with a reinstall of Windows XP Pro and all my software. Luckily the data on the old drive was still accessible and I am using it as a slave in case I missed...
- Tags: acchini@..., disk, hard drive, HDD, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, windows
- Q&A 2005-12-01
- Blue Screen
- I have 2 Hard Drives, when i boot up i get the screen telling me that a scan on the d Drive has been cancelled, How can i cure this.Now and again my computer crashes and i suspect it could be the CPu, is there a program where i can...
- Tags: BIOS, CPU
- Q&A 2005-08-31
- freeze ups
- When I leave my computer on in an idle condition for a fairly short time, it freezes up and I have to push the power button and restart.i have the computer set topower scheme always on never turn off in standby " " ...
- Tags: warrenL
- Discussion threads 2007-03-02
- Unable to run scandisk- Win XP Pro
- I go to run scandisk, with fix errors box checked, & I get a msg that a process has access to the drive and that scandisk cannot fix errors. This didn't used to happen, wonder if the NAV product could be doing this? The system is: NEC GT100, 450mhz, 256Ram,...
- Tags: badair, Chkdsk, Command Prompt Chkdsk, disk, dmile, Microsoft Windows XP, windows
- Q&A 2005-07-19
- Disabling of scan disk in windows 2000 pro
- we are facing a problem to disable scandisk when there is no dad clusters in the hard disk but when the system reboots each time it will go for scan disk like in windows 98 we can disable scandisk in startup, i want to know how can it be done...
- Tags: window, disk, Disabling, Click OK, scvivek_chandra@..., windows
- Q&A 2004-10-07
- commands for servicing windows
- Please give me some useful commands like msconfig, regedit etc to solve the problems occured in the os. Give me all the commands needed for pc troubleshooting.Check out the Windows Network Diagnostic commands from the Command Prompt article athttp://www.bsalsa.no-ip.info/Windows%20Network%20Diagnostic.htmIt gives you windows commands and which operating systems support them.Or you...
- Tags: haja_naj@..., window, windows
- Q&A 2005-01-27
- Very slow access on C drive
- I have a IBM server with RAID 5 configured and Windows server 2003 installed. Recently the C drive became very slow. It takes 3-4 minutes to open folders and takes ages to reboot. however I also have a second partition on the RAID 5 and that work normally.Does anyone know...
- Tags: RAID, Storage, Servers, yahmed@..., C-drive
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- CHK-Mate (zip)
- Have you ever lost important files after Scandisk or Chkdsk 'repaired' the file system? Did Scandisk or Chkdsk convert your files to Filexxxx.chk files? Did you ever wonder if there was something useful in those filexxxx.chk files? CHK-Mate will examine the contents of the CHK files and determine if the...
- Tags: Content, CHK, File Extension, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2005-06-07
- No Start Up Screen...
- I have used many System and Tweaking Utilities on my PC, for some reason, I guess on accident, I did something that DISABLED my Start Up Picture. The Shutdown Picture is still functioning. Now, when ever I start or reboot my PC, I get the "Starting Windows 98..." messege. What...
- Tags: cyberghost_1@..., Start-Up Screen, window
- Q&A 2004-10-03
- SMART ERROR
- My Sony Laptop 18 months old would show Smart Error message each time I am booting stating that hard disk Failure may be eminent. I have tried several things including scanning the hard disk but that says the disk is running perfectly. I have reformat the hard that didnt help...
- Tags: bashirabdu@..., disk, SMART, hard drive
- Q&A 2004-10-22
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