1) yes - let the scandisk finish, or it will forever keep coming back!
2) because you will probably see that windows has regenerated the
scandisk.exe file (although it may also be using the scandiskw.exe file) -
since it's part of the protected file system in Win ME
3) What size is your hard disk? - there can be issues with very large
drives, where the number of clusters overflows the counter, and things get
a little screwy from there on in!<g>
Try running Scandisk while in Safe Mode, rather than normal mode

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>I am having a problem with Scandisk:
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overj - 30 Oct 2004 09:05 GMT
Thanks for your response, Noel. The disk is only 20GB, which I should not
have thought was a problem. I had better try running it in Safe mode.
> 1) yes - let the scandisk finish, or it will forever keep coming back!
> 2) because you will probably see that windows has regenerated the
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