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Os: winme
when i try usin scandisk i got this warning
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scandisc has restarted 10times because
windows or another program has been
writting to this drive .
Qutting some running programs may enable scandisk to fish sooner.
do you want continuo receiving this warning?
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as a solution i quit all of the task list progs xcept (Explorer)
but the prob remain,how do i solve this prob?
thnx 4 ur help
Try rebooting and then running scandisk... if that doesn't work...post and I'll try to think of another solution.
Check for any antivirus programs, ram cleaners, anything that's open... kill as many processes as you can so that there's nothing writing to disk because everytime something does, scandisk has to restart. There is a reason they recommend you close all running programs when you run it. Chances are there's something still running if it's still restarting, in which case, boot up in safe mode... if they left that in ME, I never actually used the OS long enough, it came on my pc and I hated it so much after one day that I just upgraded to 2k.
WinME does not play well with scandisk. I had it approx. two years and it never did a complete run. btw, WinME is probably the worst of all the windows OSs, so your best bet would be to by another windows (XP does fairly well) or *NIX. If you're intent on keeping WinME, I wish you good luck and hope you have a better experience than I did.
Just another idea: download a third party scan disk program, maybe it will help.
just Explorer is open ( nothing else n the task list)Quote:
Check for any antivirus programs, ram cleaners, anything that's open
i'll try that.Quote:
boot up in safe mode
i will try this alos n i'll back to uQuote:
Try rebooting and then running scandisk
I used Norton disk doctor once and everytime it would scan the disk it couldn't have anything using the hard drive. It was strange to. If I closed a windows, minused a windows it would restart. I couldn't do anything with the computer untill it was done.
[EDIT]Also I would take everyone elses advice and get a different OS. Windows ME really sucks[/EDIT]
Here is the link to the Microsoft Knowledge Base Article --222469, that covers your error
message----http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;222469
Hope this helps
Why you dont use Norton Utilities, its better than Windows Scan Disk. Even i'm using Windows XP right now, but i'm still using Norton Utilities... Compare to others third party utilities program, i'm prefer Norton Utilities... most of my friends use it.
Hope you'll find the SOLUTION....
Try booting Windows in Safe mode (press F8 (?) repeatedly whilst the PC boots, and select safe mode from the list of options). Then try running scandisk.
Virtually guaranteed to work ....
before u use scandisk use CTRL-ALT-DEL and close all apps that are running.
I normaly ignore the message and let the system continue.. well not entirly true.. If I encounter the problem I will first follow the earlier advice..
To summerise the advice given.
1/ Pause the Task Schedualer MMTASK (you can stop this loading in msconfig/startup.. disable it if you never use it..)
2/ use CTL-ALT-DEL to stop most of the background tasks (this won't stop un-needed Services )
3/ if the Above won't stop the prob.. ReStart in SafeMode and run Scan-Disk there.. it will be slower (this goes for Defrag as well)
Several other things will cause this the restarting.. including the HDD "auto Align" some older HDD's would Regulary auto align themselves due to variations due to temperature.
as well as services that are installed with some other M$ software or even with some Hardware Drivers.. some Video/Sound Card drivers (hence the hint to start in safeMode)
And after this (especially if the HDD itself is the cause), just let the thing continue.. you don't realy need to be doing anything else on the computer tonight ..did you?
Cheers
hi again
regarding what said about moving to another OS ,
Not bad idea at least i will waste the kernl but,not know,
regarding what said about qutting some programmes in the task list ,
i do that but it did not work nor in the safe mode.
regarding wat said about using a third party proog. Well i will try it.
Thnx 4 ur help
Click "Start", "Run", & type msconfig ...press enter...a box will come up...click the startup tab & uncheck everything accept systray and explorer if they are in there...reboot and then run scandisk...you should probably still think about going to a different OS, I would not recommend upgrading though, it normally just causes problems with the new OS...