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scan disk and defrag,too

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crystal - 15 Jun 2004 23:19 GMT
Scandisk tells me I have an error and, once it begins to
repair it, I get another error that says "An error
occured while scan disk was attempting to correct the
previous error. Complete a thorough check of this drive,
then run scan disk again and choose to conduct a standard
test". When I do this I get another error that
says "Scandisk must now restart because another program
(or Windows itself) wrote to your disk. Any errors that
were previously reported, but not corrected may be
reported again."

I've tried to rerun scandisk and get the same exact
error. When I try to go on to defrag I'm told that I
can't because my disk has errors. Any suggestions?
Jeff Richards - 15 Jun 2004 23:51 GMT
There is information here about running Scandisk.  You might be best to run
it from DOS.
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/scandisk.html
TROUBLESHOOTING SCANDISK PROBLEMS
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> Scandisk tells me I have an error and, once it begins to
> repair it, I get another error that says "An error
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> error. When I try to go on to defrag I'm told that I
> can't because my disk has errors. Any suggestions?
crystal - 16 Jun 2004 15:46 GMT
Thanks, Jeff. I'll try that.

>-----Original Message-----
>There is information here about running Scandisk.  You might be best to run
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crystal - 16 Jun 2004 17:13 GMT
I read through your suggestions...tried what was
applicable and still to no avail! To run from DOS do I
just use the start scndsk command or can I set up the
properties of the scan there too?

>-----Original Message-----
>There is information here about running Scandisk.  You might be best to run
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
>.
Jeff Richards - 16 Jun 2004 23:37 GMT
To run Scandisk from DOS you need to boot to DOS from an emergency startup
disk.  You can set scandisk options by editing scandisk.INI, or you can use
command line options. Do SCANDISK /? to see the options. The default options
should be just fine.
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>I read through your suggestions...tried what was
> applicable and still to no avail! To run from DOS do I
> just use the start scndsk command or can I set up the
> properties of the scan there too?
 
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