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re: scandisk starts when booting system
Tuesday, February 12, 2002 at 6:09 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John Shultz
(2 messages posted)
So how do you DISABLE the damn scandisk on boot, so it can't run no matter what sort
of a mess the HDD is in? Microsoft went to the trouble of including a check box
on the screen so it wont run automatically, but this is always greyed out. (So it
cannot be unchecked) WinBoost 98 had a feature to stop this happening, but of course
you need WinBoostMe for this one, which I do not have. I even moved the scandisk
program to another directory, but Windows still somehow manages to find it. (or it
runs scandisk from somewhere else) This auto scandisk is the biggest pain on WinME
because it hangs about 50% of the time. (At least it does on the 4 machines I have
running WinME) This percentage of course means that now and again you have to reboot
a few times to restore your system.
While I'm at it, here is my list of Windows9X, Me, XP's worst features
- Disk Cache goes overboard unless it's capped
- Swapfile can take the whole C: drive unless capped
- System Restore is useless and wastes hundreds of meg of HDD space
- You uncheck the default to install online services (AOL etc) and yet they install
anyway
- System Monitor is not a default install option
- Commonly used items such as notepad, calculator, etc are tucked away behind several
menus
While there are fixes for all these, and work arounds etc, it requires extra time
for each OS install. For me this is about once a month with four P.C.s'. Thankyou
Bill Gates for an Operating System which is a piece of crap.
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On Wednesday, February 6, 2002 at 7:12 pm, Mike Sommer wrote:
>Hi Robert;
>
>There is a known bug in Windows ME that may be the cause of your problem. Modern
>computers today run so fast that Windows ME may not have time to write important
>information to the hard disk before the computer shuts down. As a result this constitutes
>a improper shut down and causes Windows ME to run scan disk each time you boot.
>The message below was copied from the Microsoft Web site and explains the problem
>further. There is a patch you can download to fix this this problem. This patch
>introduces a 2 second delay in the shutdown process to allow enough time for the
>Hard Drive to save all important information. This patch may solve your problem.
> To get the patch choose start and then Windows Update. This will take you to the
>Microsoft Web Site. The web site will scan your system and tell you what patches
>are appropriate for your system. The one I describe will be in the list. Hope
this
>helps.
>
> Good Luck
>
> Mike
>
>The Windows IDE Hard Drive Cache Package provides a workaround for computers running
>Windows Millennium with Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) hard drives, large caches,
>and modern processors. IDE hard drives store data in a hardware cache (temporary
>memory) and write the data to the hard disk later. For these computers, data can
>be lost during the shutdown process because the amount of time that it takes for
>fast processors to shut down is so short that the hard disk may shut down before
>the data in the cache is written to the hard drive. This update introduces a two
>second delay in the shutdown process, which allows the hard drive's cache to write
>any data to the hard drive. Download now to delay your shutdown process slightly
>to prevent data loss.
>
>
>On Wednesday, February 6, 2002 at 4:51 pm, Robert wrote:
>I have a question about Scandisk:
>Everytime I start windows me scandisk starts and both hard drives are highlighted.
>I upgraded from windows 95
>
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