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Win ME ScanDisk Error Message
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Eric
01/18/02
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Here is the following message I get when I perform a "Thorough" ScanDisk ERROR MESSAGE! ScanDisk - HP_PAVILLION (C:) ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because Windows or another program has been writing to this drive. Quitting some programs may enable Scan Disk to finish sooner. Do you want to continue receiving this warning? Thorough Test
Options: Areas of the disk to scan: System and data areas ScanDisk Advanced Options
Display summary: Never
Lost file fragment: Free
Log file: No log
Check for files: Invalid file names, Invalid dates and times, Duplicate names
Cross-linked files: Ignore
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Frank
01/18/02
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Scan Disk is having a hard time running because programs are continuing to make changes to the harddrive in the background.
This means you need to close all windows programs.
Turn off all background programs then try again.
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Eric
01/18/02
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Hi Frank, I've actually went into the Close Program window, where you CTRL+ALT+Delete, and turned everything off but Explorer and I still received the message.
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Niels
nbosboom@hotmail.com
01/19/02
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Have you also turned of the screensaver? Niels.
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Eric
01/21/02
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Hi Niels, Yes, screensaver is definitely off.
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RCross
senwolf@ezlink.com
04/14/02
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boot to dos and run scandisk from there our boot with a start up disk and run scandisk from the start disk
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Mohd Azeri
azeri@mailcity.com
06/30/02
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You may forget to stop background programs such as anti-virus utility programs. Deactivate the background programs and execute ScanDisk again.
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Massoud
06/30/02
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HI
Another option is to run scandisk in safemode.
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big AL
BUDWEISERUK2K@hotmail.com
11/02/02
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hi,
restart pc, keep taping f8 untill startup screen upears,,
for wins 98 and mins me.
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Massoud
11/02/02
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Hi Big AL
I thought for Win 98 or me, holding down Control (Ctrl) key would take you to Safe Mode.
Pressing F8 will take you to safe mode in Win95, NT, 2k or XP Operating Systems.
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Peter
medias_petre@hotmail.com
12/21/02
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Hi there!
Im having 2 problems with ScanDisk. The first one is that message that it already restarted ten times and that i should close some programs. The second problem, the worse one too, is that when its about 80% done on drive C it just blocks and crashes my computer. It does this every time i run it. What can i do?
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Dan
TREAS85@YOURCLEARWAVE.COM
01/06/03
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Every time I run scandisk, it finds errors and fixes them. Later in the day, the PC slows down and scandisk finds errors and fixes them again. How can I find out what is causing the errors?
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Julie
jules1fly@aol.com
04/25/03
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I also get this message when running scan disk, but don't know how to quit running programs so that Scan disk can finish sooner. HELP!
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Abnormal
04/25/03
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Link from microsoft;
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222469
Tweaks that helped Me using windows ME.
http://www.burzurq.com/forum/trevtweak.html
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George
gmerrill@tiac.net
06/11/03
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Howdy,
I just started having this problem as well. The error is:
ScanDisk has restarted 10 times because Windows or another program has been writing to this drive. Quitting some programs may enable Scan Disk to finish sooner. Do you want to continue receiving this warning?
I closed all background programs except scandisk and Explorer, deactivated anti virus and still I get the message.
I have also received other messages during this process including that it found a file with a future date on it and that there is a file where two program/processes say that it belongs to them and wants to know if I want to delete the file or make a copy for each of them.
All this becuase I tried to defrag and got a message that there was a problem and that I needed to run scandisk.
Any advice would be appreciated. Since I only get to this thread on occasion, please feel free to email me directly at gmerrill@tiac.net
Thanks,
George
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margaret
suroor@virtualtourist.com
08/02/03
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I am having problems with Standard scan disk also advanced scan disk..it locks up half way through..I have windows Me ..I have left it running for 3 hrs..still the same... the disk turning around is not working on the display...
can you help me..
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Mikey B
n/a
08/02/03
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follow these instructions ...press CTRL ALT DEL, click on EXPLORER and the END TASK, when it prompts to shut down click CANCEL.. wait about 5 seconds untill the error comes up END TASK ?? click YES and all background programs will close but windows will remain open, you can now do a good scandisk, without it restarting over and over !!
Hope this helps.
MikeB
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L.S
smckelvey@cox.net
09/07/03
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I'm getting same message as Eric above; and I can't defrag because it gives me a message that I need to scan since errors have been picked up as need fixing. I've tried recovery disk, but how do I get the scan disk to totally scan and fix the errors. Help!
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Frank
09/18/03
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If you are having trouble running scandisk because of background programs give "enditall2" a try.
Enditall2 will turn off programs running in background.
To download it, do a search in google.com for "enditall2"
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dave
hiveriff@aol.com
12/09/03
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W98 S.E.; error with defrag
a friend can't defrag.running w98se,he claims all programs closed except those needed to run defrag. a friend of his tried it from dos. nothing has helped.don't know if they went to safe mode, but probably did before going to dos.
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mikeyb
01/01/04
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Dave,
could be that the scandisk.exe file is corrupt, especially if it won't run in DOS, (no background jobs would be running if you run if before windows starts). you can replace the scandisk.exe file with another copy from a different WIN98se pc - It is normally about 140k, so can easily be emailed, if you like send me the email of your friend and i will send him a working copy of Scandisk from a win98se pc i have here.
Regards
MikeyB
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mikeyb
01/01/04
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Dave, also note that the defrag.exe file can also be copied from another WIN98se pc, i think it is about 250k, so can also be emailed.
Regards
MikeyB
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