Scandisk

Miroslav

Scandisk keeps getting stuck near the end of it's task. It just freezes the screen and the PC isn't showing any signs it's doing anything.

Does anybody know if any reasons this may be happening?

Thanks for any help!

albertross_2

Do you mean scandisk or chkdsk? Which OS?

If XP, try start, run, chkdsk c: /F/R then reboot

Miroslav

Scandisk - the thing that starts when you re-boot after an illegal shutdown.

Windows ME

albertross_2

Oh, ME..

You could try safe mode?

Miroslav

albertross wrote:

Oh, ME..

You could try safe mode?

Tried but it does the same

No idea why it's doing it.

I could leave it on when I go out and see if it's trying to fix a problem?

albertross_2

You could try running scandisk from dos using a bootdisk.

Haven't tried this disk myself, but it is a famous site for bootdisks, and legit.

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
Windows Me Custom, No Ramdrive | Mirror1 | 2

Miroslav

May give it a go. See if I can do a defrag or something that may help.

Thanks

poorbutgettingricher

just exit scandisk, and continue to boot into windows.

and when windows has booted correctly leave for 5 mins, then just reboot the machine, scandisk should not start thistime.

Miroslav

Thanks. I do just cancel it, but sometimes need to use it to repair any errors.