re: scan disk and defrag not completing
Sunday, September 21, 2003 at 9:12 pm
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Posted by Thomas
(2 messages posted)
Stacy: SERIOUS likelihood that if selective start-up
slim-downs does not do the trick (Jessica on 9/17), it
is part of the heavy-duty trojan-horse/virus crap of the
past 2 weeks. Spoybot w/ Norton A/V and Internet Sec./Pers. Firewall almost did
it for me. However, the
"thorough" Scan Disc function would not work through
to the end. I used the Dr. Watson (Search Files) appl.
included in Win ME and it has a disc scan function. It
took over an hour but it ran full-cycle. I then used the
computer for a few hours of assorted tasks and then,
before shut-down, ran the regular Scan Disc and it
worked fine in less than 15 minutes of run-time. Defrag followed and went to 100%
within a half-hour.
Maybe this will help.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 12:09 am, Jessica wrote:
>Stacy, I went through the same steps last week and encountered most of the same
>problems. That's almost too coincidental. While my Norton software has not detected
>an attack it almost seems like you and I got the same bug.
>
>Anyway, I finally worked around the problem on scan disk and defrag by doing a selective
>startup with only System Tray checked (START, RUN, type MSCONFIG, --- under GENERAL
>tab "dot" Selective Startup button and check all boxes, then select STARTUP tab,
> uncheck everything except SYSTEM TRAY). The computer will restart with a lot more
>resources free and then try Scan Disk and Defrag. You probably want to make a list
>(or print page showing) everything checked on your startup list before deleting
it
>so you can get back there later.
>The other step I took on Scan Disk (thorough option) was to run the System and the
>Data scans separately. After both Scan disk and Defrag were complete I then ran
>Disk Cleanup. Then I started adding items back on the Startup tab, trying to find
>the minimum required for startup. For the failed Microsoft download I tried System
>Restore, but that failed to complete, so I used the GoBack function on the Roxio
>software that came with Norton. Even after all this I'm still convinced I need
to
>run the Spyware removal programs and find best way to address memory leaks.
>
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