Scandisk hangs after bad shutdown

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Nick - 29 Sep 2003 14:28 GMT

Hi

Scandisk has been activated after a series of bad
shutdowns (18month old!). It starts and goes about 22% and
then freezes after reporting a data error while reading
cluster 37399.
I've tried exiting Scandisk before this and then got a
fatal exception 0E at 0167:00000013 and then reports a
missing/unable to load c:\windows\system\vmm32.xds (plus
some more code that I missed) before crashing.
Anybody know how to skip scandisk in Command prompt only
start up? What the problem might be? How I can fix this
without losing data? (Backup a bit out of date)

Cheers

Nick

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Lee - 30 Sep 2003 05:29 GMT

> Hi
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> Nick

Pressing X will bypass Scandisk as it loads to scan your
system or you can Edit Msdos.sys to set the value
AutoScan= to zero for a more permanent method of bypassing
scandisk at boot up. Msdos.sys is on the root of your
boot drive, for most folks, C:\msdos.sys, it has and needs
system, hidden, and read only attributes so those will
have to removed and then restored after editing with
DOS's attrib command.

attrib -r -h -s c:\msdos.sys
edit c:\msdos.sys
attrib -a +s +h +r c:\msdos.sys

Info you provide indicate to me a serious problem, I have
no hopes my advice will help other than to avoid scandisk
for the moment. That is as far as booting that hard drive.
You may well want to get a new hard drive, install Windows
on it and attempt to recover data using current drive as
slave to new master drive.

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