[pchelpers] Re: Help Scandisk

This is usually caused by something else (besides the obvious screen
saver) running in the background. To shut them down, use ctrl+alt+del
ane end task on everything except explorer and systray.

Cyril H Halbach wrote:
> 
>         Need some suggestions on Scandisk of my C: drive. When I boot
> from a floppy and run scandisk it runs clean however from Windows when
> I
> do a start/run/type scandisk/enter it appears as though scandisk will
> only go about halfway and then rescan forever always to the same spot.
> All the programs in the system tray have been closed, including Anti
> Virus.  The screen saver is set to none so it does not interfere.
>         The computer is a 733 mhz Hewlett Packard with 319 Megs of
> Memory, Primary drives is 30 Gigs with the C Drive partitioned to 8
> gigs
> and the Software is Windows ME which has worked pretty much flawlessly
> for the past year and is still working fine.
>         My concern is that Scandisk may not work when I really need it
> such as when a program locks up and I have to drop power to get back
> in
> business.
> Appreciate all suggestions..  Thanks
> 
>     Cy Halbach
> 
> 

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