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<Pine.GSO.3.95.iB1.0.1040214180640.25131A-100000@halifax.chebucto.ns.
ca>, "Marilyn E. Burford" <burford@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>Periodically, if I have to re-boot, Scandisk will freeze up mid scan and I
>have to press the reset button again (this is on a Dimension 4100 running
>Win ME, FWIW). Once in awhile it's frozen up on the 2nd reboot, but never
>more than that. Today it froze up a third time, so when I yet AGAIN
>pressed reset, when Scandisk came up I clicked on "CANCEL" before it had a
>chance to freeze and the boot up procedure proceeded uneventfully. I then
>ran Scandisk on my own just to fix anything that needed fixing. If these
>freeze-ups are going to keep happening every time I figure I might as well
>disable Scandisk via MSCONFIG. Would that be a big deal or would y'all
>advise against it? Maybe better just to do what I did...i.e. cancell the
>Scandisk, let the boot process finish and then run it myself? Thanks.

[ Please excuse my previous incomplete post if it got out.  I hit the 
wrong button in a hurry to do something else and it got "Sent" instead 
of "Saved".  %-)  Issued a "Cancel" but it may have escaped anyway.]

G'day Marilyn,

Sounds like you have the same problem that I do -- and it drives me 
mad because it *invariably* happens when you're *really* in a hurry to 
boot up to catch some ephemeral wisdom before doing other things. :-)

Actually, it was happening almost routinely for a few months, then 
simply went away for quite a long time, but has come back recently to 
annoy me again once or twice a week (I boot from cold daily).

Here's how my reasonably reliable "recovery technique" goes:

1. Turn ON to boot up and get BSOD
2. Hit RESET (Bill's famous chord doesn't work here)
3. ScanDisk cranks up and appears to hang.  Minimise it and it starts 
to run!  (There are some variations here, but this seems the best.)
4. After ScanDisk exits, the boot process continues and all the screen 
icons, task bars etc., appear.  But...
5. On my system a DOS batch runs as part of the process of booting, 
and this gives that small error window "Not enough system resources" 
which means I can't run a DOS window when required, so I close that 
warning window then do a normal
6. Shutdown and wait until the machine turns itself off.  Finally...
7. Turn ON again and it boots up correctly.  (Usually. :)
 

Cheers, Phred.

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