- Scan Disk Problem
- Posted by Barbara and Bennett Sneed on January 31st, 2004
I have Windows ME and a Gateway Computer. I am
experiencing scan disk problems. I can do a regular scan
but not a thorough scan. It gets about half done and stops
saying there was a serious error. I am getting some
problems and I am afraid I may need to get a new hard
drive or reload windows which I don't really want to do
either. I have checked for viruses and there are none
present. I went out to Nortons on the Internet and they
did a free scan from that point which showed the computer
to be clean. Anyone knows where to go from here. The
computer is three years old as of December.
If I can get some helpful advice it would be greatly
appreciated.
God bless.
Seriously Barb.
- Posted by war17 on January 31st, 2004
Run a hard disk utility to see if your hard disk is bad.
Maxtor/Quantum (Fireball)
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm
Western Digital http://support.wdc.com/download/
Samsung
http://www.samsungelectronics.com/hd...ies_index.html
Seagate http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html
IBM/Hitachi http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
fujitsu/Seimens http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download...es/#diagnostic
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- Posted by Barbara and Bennett on February 17th, 2004
Thank you for your information. I have just found it.
Sorry to be so late in responding.
Barb at
bandbsneed@comcast.net
- Posted by don on March 2nd, 2004
Reading your scandisk logs might supply a helpful clue (be
sure to choose 'append' for scandisk log creation).
a) in Windows, use CTRL-ALT-DEL to close down any non-
essential programs while running scandisk. MUCH better is:
b) cold re-BOOT ('shut down' / turn off ) to pure MS-DOS
(best way is to cold re-BOOT using your Windows
recovery/boot disk). Use scandisk from pure MS-DOS (if
that works but scandisk while in Windows does not work,
your Windows may be infected with a virus, or portion of
one). Symantec (website or software) does not catch all
viruses (especially when running a virus check or loading
AV software is done after being infected). [I've a
similar problem, but was able to manually 'cripple' my
virus (worm) which attacked via my MSsqlSVR. At least,
the symptoms are gone. The virus never was 'found' by
NAVCE or Symantec's website virus check.]
