Scandisk is being a 8!47(|-| at startup.

[Mr_Perfect]

Hey,

I've just built a new system with a 46 GB ATA100 IBM hd running windows 98 SE. Everything runs fine, but if for some reason windows is not shut down properly scandisk comes up and procedes to scan the entire disk for more then 26 minutes! 26 minutes! That's insane!

Now before you tell me that all I have to do is hit escape and I can exit scandisk, I'll tell you that for some reason that doesn't work. Infact, it won't even pull up the "Do you really want to exit?" dialog box. Heck, I don't even have a progress bar along the bottom, the internal speaker will just start it's "you've pressed enough keys already, now stop" clicking. I have TweakUI installed and I set it to prevent scandisk from starting on such ocasions, but for some reason it still does once in a blue moon.

Anyone have any idea why scandisk does not respond or why it takes so long, or maybe how to disable it more completly?

Also, does anyone else have boot-up pause a long time at the C:\REM[HEADER] point?

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Mr. Perfect
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Descent, because gravity is highly over-rated.

 

[Mr_Perfect]

Ok... Nothing anyones delt with before? Or is this common?

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Mr. Perfect
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Descent, because gravity is highly over-rated.

 

[Spdy_Gonzales]

I don't know what the problem is, but if it were happening to me then I would do a clean reinstallation of Windows98. Back up your data, reformat and reinstall.

If you decide to reinstall, you should also make two partitions on your hard drive. One 3GB partition for windows98 and programs, and a second partition for data files, using whatever space remains on the HD. This will save time when you defrag the boot drive to optimize performance, or when scandisk runs because of a bad shutdown.

 

[Mr_Perfect]

Unfortunatly I have already reformated because of another problem and it has not solved this one either. I hadn't though of a boot sector at the time. It takes so much time to reformat that I don't think I'll try that though.

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Mr. Perfect
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Descent, because gravity is highly over-rated.

 

[Guest]

Okay this is what i would do mate. First of all get a floppy and backup a file called scandisk.exe which can be found in windows\system\. Then once it is backed up i would permenately delete it from the hard drive. If this does not work and you start experiencing technical difficulties, put the file back on the drive from the floppy. Please email me and tell me what happened. Good Luck!