re: Scan Disk Everytime?
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 7:32 pm
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Posted by Ed
(2 messages posted)
I'm having a problem similar to the one that Leah described... I created a bookdisk
as you suggested to Leah, and began running ScanDisk at the A prompt.
Shortly after it began running, it stopped and I got the following error:
ScanDisk encountered a data error while reading the FAT on Drive C. This error prevents
ScanDisk from fixing this drive.
What can I do about this?
I'm using AdAware, Spybot and Norton firewall and antivirus on my computer, fyi.
I did not understand your comment about using Delindex.bat or CCleaner on the bootdisk
to clean out old junk files. I'm sure there is a lot of junk... but I am unclear
about how to remove them. Are these freeware? If I download them, are they self-explanatory
or is there a special procedure to get them to run...?
Any advice you can offer would be appreciated... thanks. - Ed
On Wednesday, December 29, 2004 at 12:26 pm, Mac wrote:
>EMERGENCY BOOT DISK
>href="http://www.all4you.dk/FreewareWorld/links.php?cat=019">FREEWARE
>Hello Leah, Do you have an ME bootdisk? If not you can make one in the Control Panel,
>Add-Remove Programs Start-Up Disk. You'll need one formatted floppy.
>
>When it is made reboot with it in the A: drive and allow it to load. When the first
>screen appears choose Minimal Boot and wait for the prompt to appear.
>
>At the prompt type: A:\>scandisk /all /surface , and allow scandisk to see if there
>are any errors on the drive.
>
>What protective programs are you using? AdAware SE, SpyBot SD, SpywareBlaster, Anti-Virus,
>Firewall?
>
>I use Delindex.bat on the bootdisk to clean out old junk files and CCleaner to do
>the same.
>
>Both should remove old index.dat files as these can cause problems in scanning and
>when using defrag.
>
>ALL the above programs can be found as freeware.
>
Mac
>
>WINDOWS SUPPORT
>HREF="http://www.crucial.com">RAM
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