Normally caused by an error detected by Windows ME that it thinks is a disk drive hardware error, such as a crashed disk sector. This is its only way to force running of a Through mode ScanDisk. And this will not go away until ScanDisk is allowed to scan the whole disk in Through mode and all detected errors are "corrected". So "let it run".

Recommendation is to boot with the Windows ME startup diskette and run the DOS version of ScanDisk C: first and run its surface test. It will give you a visible indication of where any Bad blocks are on the disk drive. If that runs OK, then try the Windows ME Scandisk again just to be sure. Then set ScanDisk to the Normal mode and run it one time.

If more than one or two errors show up in the DOS mode ScanDisk, it is time to start looking for a replacement disk drive. Go for a 120GB drive, as any thing over 137GB is not supported by Windows ME and can cause problems if not setup correctly.

Written in response to: Scan disk comes on when starting computer (melch4: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 at 6:58 am) Responses to this message: re: Scan disk comes on when starting computer (Jose Ochoa: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 2:20 am)

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