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Re: problems with scandisk/defrag

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From: Tom Malfr�re
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 00:00
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have you tried to boot into windows, close alle programs except explorer and
then try to run scandisk?
If another program writes your disk while scandisk is running scandisk
restarts from te begining of your disk

David W. Torres wrote in message <8j86dh$kia$1@slb3.atl.mindspring.net>...
>i am not sure why, obviously, but when i run the maintenance wizard and the
>defrag and scandisk apps individually they won't work. the scandisk app
will
>start checking allocation tables (or whatever) and then check folders but
it
>doesn't get past one block on the percentage bar, then it repeats to
>allocation files. Defrag won't get past 0%.... i hear the hard drive
working
>but nothing is happening. i went to dos to run scandisk and it says that i
>need to REM devices inorder to scan the disk surface and then it quits.
what
>the hell? also...how can i view the .chk files that scandisk creates with
>the lost file fragments?
>
>thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
>dave        nindoty@hotmail.com
>
>
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Date: 2000/06/27
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