Re: Can't run Scan Disk

From: David H. Lipman (DLipman~nospam~_at_Verizon.Net)
Date: 12/31/03


Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 19:22:28 -0500

It is NOT a virus.

Run ScanDisk in Safe Mode.

Dave

"Ekim" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:02f701c3cf30$28ade250$a601280a@phx.gbl...
| I have a Sony Viao PC that is running Windows ME. When I
| try to run Scandisk I get a message that says that
| something is trying to write to the hard disk and that it
| will therefore take a long time to perform the scandisk
| routine.
|
| I have gone to the task manager and stopped all non
| essential items from running but the message still
| appears and the scandisk routine will not complete.
|
| Also, I have run a complete check on the disk using
| current Norton anti-virus software.
|
| Any ideas on what can be done?
|
| Help!!!



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