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  • on boot - scandisk tries to run - says finished - and just sits there

    From christlives@christlives@email.com (Tr0y Quigl3y) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 06:55:05
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    i have windows xp pro sp1

    i have not installed anything new except a 2nd hdd

    i did a check disk for errors - i rebooted the computer
    and it checked my c: for errors - it then said it was all finished and
    it just sits at that screen

    so i had to hit the power button to power down the computer

    now when i try to boot my computer - it tries to run a scandisk - if i
    let the scandisk run - it says it is finished and just sits there - or
    if i press i key and tell it NOT to run the scandisk - it does the
    EXACT same thing

    what can i do ?

    Tr0y
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  • From christlives@christlives@email.com (Tr0y Quigl3y) to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:04:30
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    after tons of looking and trying

    this is what worked

    chkntfs.exe /d

    the errors i was getting were:
    "windows has finished checking the disk"
    "cannot open volume for direct access"

    i now have neither of these errors

    woohoo !!!


    christlives@email.com (Tr0y Quigl3y) wrote in message news:<9a7071d9.0307230555.49e0a193@posting.google.com>...
    i have windows xp pro sp1

    i have not installed anything new except a 2nd hdd

    i did a check disk for errors - i rebooted the computer
    and it checked my c: for errors - it then said it was all finished and
    it just sits at that screen

    so i had to hit the power button to power down the computer

    now when i try to boot my computer - it tries to run a scandisk - if i
    let the scandisk run - it says it is finished and just sits there - or
    if i press i key and tell it NOT to run the scandisk - it does the
    EXACT same thing

    what can i do ?

    Tr0y
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  • From Ayaz Ahmed Khan@ayaz0007@hotmail.com to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Thursday, July 24, 2003 00:47:10
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.ms-windows.misc

    "Tr0y Quigl3y" typed:

    --snipped--
    now when i try to boot my computer - it tries to run a scandisk - if i
    let the scandisk run - it says it is finished and just sits there - or
    if i press i key and tell it NOT to run the scandisk - it does the
    EXACT same thing


    You could enter into DOS by pressing the appropriate _function_ key---
    on my system it is _F1_---before Windows starts to boot. After
    selecting the _command prompt only_ option, and having been stranded
    on the _C:\_ prompt, run the scandisk command. It would check for
    errors, and if there are any, it would prompt to rectify them. Exit
    the _scandisk_ programme exactly when it asks for a _Thorough Surface
    Scan_, and then reboot the system. The OS should boot properly,
    without the _scandisk_ interfering.

    --
    Ayaz Ahmed Khan

    Yours Forever in,
    Cyberspace.
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  • From AFM@afm@tightfit.fsnet.co.uk to comp.os.ms-windows.misc on Thursday, July 24, 2003 08:08:50
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    If there is a serious disk error (eg some sectors which are bad havent
    been marked that way OR they are now bad and the OS doesnt know) -
    scandisk will not be able to fix it under windows. Scandisk must be run _outside_ windows. Not a dos box - but native dos before windows boots. Scandisk will then fix/mark etc the bad sectors - if thats what it is
    and then windows and scandisk should run normally
    :-/

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