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why can't I perform a scan disc on my "c" drive ????
Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 3:51 pm
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Posted by David (1 messages posted)


Why can't I perform scan disc on my c drive?, it keeps restarting and gives me a message as follows; attempted ten times to start scan but due to other files or programs loading try again latter {i'm paraphrasing}the thing is there is nothing loading at that time?? PLEASE HELP!!


On Thursday, September 16, 2004 at 12:50 pm, nicholas barlow wrote:
>when switching on computer it loads up so far then a message saying "one or more
>of your disk drives may have developed bad sectors press any key to run scan disk
>with surface anaylsis on these drives...."
>then when l press any key it goes onto scan disk, it gets to 17% pauses and then
>says "scan disk encountered a data error while reading cluster 5238. scan disk will
>try to continue past this error when scan disk offers you to perform a surface scan
>on this drive choose yes"it remains at 17% still, even when trying to start in safe
>mode it still says the same thing,
>could anyone give me some advice or help
>would be really grateful
>thanks
>
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Written in response to:
Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (nicholas barlow: Thursday, September 16, 2004 at 12:50 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: why can't I perform a scan disc on my "c" drive ???? (gewg_: Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 5:23 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (nicholas barlow: Thu, Sep 16, 2004, 12:50 pm)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (trey: Thu, Sep 16, 2004, 2:30 pm)
*re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Spike01: Thu, Sep 16, 2004, 2:38 pm)
-why can't I perform a scan disc on my "c" drive ???? (David: Thu, Sep 22, 2005, 3:51 pm)
*re: why can't I perform a scan disc on my "c" drive ???? (gewg_: Thu, Sep 22, 2005, 5:23 pm)
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