Lupieloo
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Unable to run Scandisk to completetion
Hi Experts! Thank you in advance for your advice :)
I have always run Scandisk in the Thorough mode. My system has recently become unstable and sluggish with system freezes. Graphics are choppy and slow. I have recently become involved with "animations, gifs, etc" and have cleaned out my DOS Temp files. I am running windows 98 on PIII at 733Mhz with 128MB. I have run Defrag to completetion, cleaned Cookies and all temp files as well as history. I have used Ctrl+Alt+Delete to close all programs but Explorer (because it won't go away)closed everything on the system tray and have attempted Scandisk in Safe Mode but it will not complete.....I have no viruses as I have run both Norton and Trend.
Any and All words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated!
Again, I thank you for your advice! gail
I have always run Scandisk in the Thorough mode. My system has recently become unstable and sluggish with system freezes. Graphics are choppy and slow. I have recently become involved with "animations, gifs, etc" and have cleaned out my DOS Temp files. I am running windows 98 on PIII at 733Mhz with 128MB. I have run Defrag to completetion, cleaned Cookies and all temp files as well as history. I have used Ctrl+Alt+Delete to close all programs but Explorer (because it won't go away)closed everything on the system tray and have attempted Scandisk in Safe Mode but it will not complete.....I have no viruses as I have run both Norton and Trend.
Any and All words of wisdom will be greatly appreciated!
Again, I thank you for your advice! gail
I see you tried safe mode. Have you tried booting to command prompt and running it?
Glenn
Glenn
Lupieloo,
Go to the safe mode, device manager, remove the display adapter and monitor and mouse.
Restart the system to normal mode, it detects again.
Restart twice. Run scandisk again.
See if it runs.
Patricia / pslh
Go to the safe mode, device manager, remove the display adapter and monitor and mouse.
Restart the system to normal mode, it detects again.
Restart twice. Run scandisk again.
See if it runs.
Patricia / pslh
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Reboot to dos or use floppy and at the prompt type
scandisk /all
and hit enter.
scandisk /all
and hit enter.
Space after scandisk.
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Tekcentre,
Thank you, I followed your advice and got Scandisk to run to completion. It found no errors and seems I am back at square one with my system remaining sluggish and freezes.
I do feel better having the scandisk completed though and will know from now on how to get it to do so.
Any other thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Thank you, I followed your advice and got Scandisk to run to completion. It found no errors and seems I am back at square one with my system remaining sluggish and freezes.
I do feel better having the scandisk completed though and will know from now on how to get it to do so.
Any other thoughts are greatly appreciated.
Lupieloo
Some more cleanup suggestions:
run scanreg (to check your registry)
run sfc (to check your system files)
And another install:
get the latest drivers for your graphic card.
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Werner
Some more cleanup suggestions:
run scanreg (to check your registry)
run sfc (to check your system files)
And another install:
get the latest drivers for your graphic card.
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Werner
ASKER
Griessh,
I followed your advice...and no problems were detected. As for the driver for my graphics card, seems I am in good shape there also.
***Thanks to all that have sent in suggestions, I will keep on trying and if anyone has any more ideas I'd love to hear them...You have all been very kind!
Lupie
I followed your advice...and no problems were detected. As for the driver for my graphics card, seems I am in good shape there also.
***Thanks to all that have sent in suggestions, I will keep on trying and if anyone has any more ideas I'd love to hear them...You have all been very kind!
Lupie
If you have an MS Office product installed, and FindFast is included, you should get rid of it. It causes many more problems than it solves.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q158705
Also if you have Norton Utilities (other than Anti-Virus or Firewall) running in the background, disable them from starting with Windows, and only use them as necessary.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q158705
Also if you have Norton Utilities (other than Anti-Virus or Firewall) running in the background, disable them from starting with Windows, and only use them as necessary.
ASKER
Thanks so much...you got me through a rough spot! :)
I had asked several people and no one knew what to do...your instructions were clear and very affective. Thank you for your time and effort! gail
I had asked several people and no one knew what to do...your instructions were clear and very affective. Thank you for your time and effort! gail
Glenn